Old French measure with a volume of 0.81 (in some sources 0.8) litres for cereals, pulses and seeds. The measure "litre" has been derived from this. Before the French Revolution, this was also a common wine bottle size before the later standard measure Pinte de Paris. See also under Bottles and Hollow Measures.
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