"Sterling" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In English law. Current or standard coin, especially silver coin; a standard of coinage
Same as Starling, 3.
A certain standard of quality or value for money.
Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the
highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of
sterling good sense.
Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money
of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling
sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money
of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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