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[[File:Bouteilles de lait en verre (Québec).jpg|thumb|right|These are glass [[milk bottle]]s from 1950s Quebec. The large bottle is a ''pinte'' (quart), the middle size a ''chopine'' (pint) and the small size a ''demiard'' (½-pint).<ref>{{citation |title=Introduction to New France |page=222 |author=Marcel Trudel}}</ref> The latter was used for cream.]] |
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Unit of volume used for dry measure in the UK.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures|last = Cardarelli|first = François Cradarelli|publisher = Springer|year = 2003|isbn = 978-1-4471-1122-1|location = London|pages = 34}}</ref> |
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A '''demiard''' is a [[Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution#Volume - Liquid measures.|traditional French measure of volume]] which, after the French revolution introduced [[introduction to the metric system|new decimal systems]], persisted in French-speaking areas of North America such as [[Quebec]] and [[Louisiana|Louisiana French]]. It was originally half of an ''ard'' but came to mean a half of a ''chopine'' or a quarter of a ''pinte''. The French ''pinte'' was, in Paris, 48 cubic inches (''pouces du Roi'') but, in North America, the terms became associated with Anglo-Saxon measures of a similar size (pinte≡quart; chopine≡pint; demiard≡½-pint).<ref>{{citation |title=Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures |last=Cardarelli |first=François |publisher = Springer |year = 2003 |isbn = 978-1-4471-1122-1 |location = London|page = 34}}</ref> |
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== Definition == |
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1/2 pint.<ref name=":0"/> |
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== Conversion == |
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1 demiard ≡ 0.5 pint <ref name=":0"/> |
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1 demiard ≡ 0.000284130625 m<sup>3</sup> |
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A demiard is a traditional French measure of volume which, after the French revolution introduced new decimal systems, persisted in French-speaking areas of North America such as Quebec and Louisiana French. It was originally half of an ard but came to mean a half of a chopine or a quarter of a pinte. The French pinte was, in Paris, 48 cubic inches (pouces du Roi) but, in North America, the terms became associated with Anglo-Saxon measures of a similar size (pinte≡quart; chopine≡pint; demiard≡½-pint).[2]