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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 1.6 [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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