greenback

greenback
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(grin'-bak) s. m.
Billets émis par toutes les banques des États-Unis qui ont des valeurs du gouvernement, jusqu'à concurrence du montant de ces valeurs.
   À voir comment tous ces gens dépensent les greenbacks et les jettent au vent, on dirait qu'ils n'ont qu'à frapper du pied pour les faire sortir de terre, L. SIMONIN Rev. des Deux-Mondes, 1er avr. 1875, p. 570.
   Ces bïllets sont ainsi dits de la couleur de leur verso, de green, vert, et back, dos.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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