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Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: picaillon 'small coin', from Provençal picaioun, from picaio 'money'

picayune

 adjective
     
pic‧a‧yune American English written
small and unimportant:
A few cuts and bruises are picayune compared to what might have happened.
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