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Pint

Pinte (F)

Anglo-American measure for liquids with different volumes - in England 0.568 and in the USA 0.473 with litres. Both correspond to one eighth of the gallon of the country in question. The English pint is also called the imperial pint. But also in many other countries pint or pint was and is a measure with different volumes. In old systems of measurement, one pint was equivalent to two bottles of wine (but today one bottle is 0.5 litres). In English pubs today beer is still served in mostly half pints, which is slightly less than the usual Austrian Seidel (Seitel) with 0.33 litres.

In France there was a bottle size for wine, beer and cider called "Pinte de Paris", introduced under King Louis XV (1710-1774), with about 0.95 litres. On the other hand, the "Pinte de Châlus" (municipality in the Départemnent Haute-Vienne) was 2.38 litres. In the French catering industry, the unit of measurement "half" (half a litre) is now known as the "Pinte", and in Australia, since the changeover to the metric system, it has been known as the "(Metric) Pint". In Germany, "Pinte" is often used colloquially as a traditional synonym for "Kneipe" (pub). See also under bottles, hollow measures and wine vessels.

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