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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PELF , a See also:

term now chiefly used of See also:money and always in a derogatory sense. The word originally meant See also:plunder, pillage (O. Fr. pelfre, probably from See also:Lat. pilare, to deprive of See also:hair, pilus), and this significance is still kept in the related word " pilfer," to make See also:petty thefts.

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