Livres is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 126 anagrams from letters in livres (eilrsv).
1545-55; Middle French, Old French Latin lībra balance, pound
The earliest silver coin issued in France was the livre, which appeared in 800, of the value of eighty cents.
But that Order in Council did not establish that difference: it did not change the relative value of the sou and the livre.
The livre of order-money is considered worth fifty per cent.
The livre was the old French monetary unit which was displaced by the franc.
He also wrote a livre de perspective , and a livre de portraiture .
The livre of Tours was worth 20 sous; that of Paris, 25 sous.
Charlemagne's livre was a Troyes1 pound of silver of definite fineness.
How can a poor devil of a labourer have half a livre to give away?
It is, though in a different sense from Montaigne's, a livre de bonne foi.
From the poor Duke of Savoy not a livre tournois was to be expected.