picaillon

== English == === Noun === picaillon (plural picaillons) Alternative form of picayune (“old coin”). == French == === Etymology === From Provençal piquar, from Vulgar Latin *pikkāre (compare Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish picar), itself either from an onomatopoetic root *pikk- (cf. also Latin picus, whence French pic), or alternatively, from Frankish *pikkōn. === Noun === picaillon m (plural picaillons) (informal, especially in plural) cash, money === Further reading === “picaillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012