Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sou"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sou \Sou\, n.; pl. {Sous}or. [F. sou, OF. sol, from L. solidus a
gold coin, in LL., a coin of less value. See {Sold}, n.,
{Solid}, and and cf. {Sol}, {Soldo}.]
An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now
displaced by, the five-centime piece (1/20 of a franc), which
is popularly called a sou.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sou
n : a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any
small amount of money; "he hasn't a sou to his name"
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