Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PA'PER-MON'EY
PA'PER-MON'EY, n.
Notes or bills issued by authority, and promising the payment of money, circulated as the representative of coin. We apply the word to notes bills issued by a state or by a banking corporation; rarely or never to private notes or bills of exchange, though the latter may be included.
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