"annas in the rupee" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A rupee was worth 16 annas, so eight annas represented a half-and-half mixture, and so on.",
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      "expansion": "annas in the rupee pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Multiracial",
          "orig": "en:Multiracial",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 44, page 285",
          "text": "By the end of the second day he was so dark that he looked to be at least eight annas in the rupee […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Indu Sundaresan, The Splendor of Silence, page 98",
          "text": "And in the end, all knew that it was true, Rosalie was only four annas in the rupee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent."
      ],
      "id": "en-annas_in_the_rupee-en-noun-1wIeduYd",
      "links": [
        [
          "mixed",
          "mixed#English"
        ],
        [
          "racial",
          "racial#English"
        ],
        [
          "descent",
          "descent#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Anglo-India, archaic, colloquial, offensive) Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial",
        "offensive",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "annas in the rupee"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A rupee was worth 16 annas, so eight annas represented a half-and-half mixture, and so on.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "annas in the rupee pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Multiracial"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 44, page 285",
          "text": "By the end of the second day he was so dark that he looked to be at least eight annas in the rupee […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Indu Sundaresan, The Splendor of Silence, page 98",
          "text": "And in the end, all knew that it was true, Rosalie was only four annas in the rupee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mixed",
          "mixed#English"
        ],
        [
          "racial",
          "racial#English"
        ],
        [
          "descent",
          "descent#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Anglo-India, archaic, colloquial, offensive) Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial",
        "offensive",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "annas in the rupee"
}