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Bible Encyclopedias
Pelf
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a term now chiefly used of money and always in a derogatory sense. The word originally meant plunder, pillage (0. Fr. pelfre, probably from Lat. pilare, to deprive of hair, pi/us), and this significance is still kept in the related word "pilfer," to make petty thefts.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pelf'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pelf.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pelf'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pelf.html. 1910.
