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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.]] |
[[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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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 French|Louisiana]]. 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). |
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 French|Louisiana]]. It was originally half of an ''ard''{{cn}} 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). |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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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. It was originally half of an ard[citation needed] 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).
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- ^ Marcel Trudel, Introduction to New France, p. 222