He won a few more gourdes and rose with a gesture of despair.

When buying something, always check whether people are quoting the price in gourdes or Haitian dollars.

But he paid me in gourdes, not dollars.

The currency itself shows a value in gourdes.

The Court also issued a civil damages judgment against the defendants for 1 billion gourdes (roughly $43 million).

I had contributed a hundred gourdes myself.

Others give prices in gourdes or even in U.S. dollars.

Only banknotes were issued for this second gourde, with the government issuing notes of 10 and 25 gourdes.

Damage to the nation's electrical infrastructure reached 336 million gourdes (US$7.9 million).

We had a few more drinks and watched Luigi lose a few gourdes for conscience sake.

Mr Smith opened the handbag and began to scatter notes - gourdes and dollars indiscriminately.

(One Haitian dollar is equivalent to five gourdes.)

A recent law requires that money not be exchanged on the parallel market and that only the official rate of five gourdes to the dollar is legal.

Senders pay a handling fee of 9 percent for American dollars, 3 percent for gourdes and 6 percent for direct-delivered food.

Although this peg was abandoned in 1989 and the currency now floats, because of the old link, five gourdes is often referred to as a "Haitian dollar".

Nadia explained that before the earthquake a small bag of beans sufficient for a family meal cost twenty-seven gourdes, a bag of rice about fifty.

To date, Father Jean-Juste has been charged with disorderly conduct, which under Haitian law carries a maximum fine of 15 gourdes, or about 40 cents.

He owns a gunnery on the Champs-Élysées, rue des Gourdes which became rue Marbeuf.

Indeed, in many places, prices are given not in gourdes, but rather in "Haitian dollars", which must be multiplied by five to convert to gourdes.

As the property of her late husband was confiscated, she lived in poverty in Saint-Marc until August 1843, when she was granted a pension 1,200 gourdes.

From the traditional 5 Haitian gourdes to the American dollar, the currency's value fell to more than 23 gourdes to the dollar in just a few weeks.

A 20 gourdes note was released into circulation in 2001, both as a commemorative (to celebrate the bicentennial of Constitution of Toussaint l'Ouverture) and as a regular issue.

What I offered him was a lot of money in Haitian terms, and I offered it in dollars and not gourdes, even though it represented half the nominal value of his shares.

Following this, banknotes were issued in denominations ranging from 10 centimes to 5 gourdes by the various Haitian governments until 1916, when the "National Bank of the Republic of Haiti" began issuing notes.

On the cable television programs here, stores in the capital advertise for foreign exchange, offering to purchase American dollars and travelers' checks at a premium over the official exchange rate of five Haitian gourdes to the dollar.