Brewer's: Crore

(A), in the East Indies, means a hundred lacs of rupees, equal nominally, in round numbers, to a million sterling. (Pronounce cror, Hindustanee karor.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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