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• kreutzer
  kreutzer

  noun

  any of various former minor coins issued by German states.
• Kreutzer
  Kreutzer

  noun

  Rodolphe 1766–1831, French violinist.

kreutzer

¹ American  

[kroit-ser] / ˈkrɔɪt sər /

noun

1. any of various former minor coins issued by German states.

2. a former copper coin of Austria, one 100th of a florin.

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Kreutzer ² American  

[kroit-ser, krœ-tser] / ˈkrɔɪt sər, krœˈtsɛr /

noun

1. Rodolphe 1766–1831, French violinist.

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kreutzer British  

/ ˈkrɔɪtsə /

noun

1. any of various former copper and silver coins of Germany or Austria

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Etymology

Origin of kreutzer

First recorded in 1540–50; from German Kreuzer, equivalent to Kreuz “cross” (originally the device on the coin; see cross) + -er noun suffix ( see -er ¹)

Example Sentences

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"But Dondersteen!" he exclaimed, "did I not tell thee that I have not one kreutzer in my wallet, and unless my friends can help thee...."

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

"Such a scandal," she said, smiling, "would cause you to be kicked down-stairs, neither would you ever receive another kreutzer from me."

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding

Oh heavens! were I a wealthy man, I would say, 'Mozart, compose what you please, and as well as you can; but till you offer me something finished, you shall not get a single kreutzer.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

From this decision the Emperor stood apart, with Bavaria and Salzburg, in putting the Reichs thaler at 96 kreutzer.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

Should the judges believe the woman's word, or the emphatic denials of the debtors that they had ever received a kreutzer?

From The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

Kreutzer and Krieps lend “Corsage” an air of carefully constructed artifice.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023

“I knew it would have to have another style,” Kreutzer said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

Kreutzer had kind of forgotten about the window jump somewhere in the blur of filming and postproduction.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

With wit, a cool eye and fluid precision, Kreutzer tracks Elisabeth across the next eventful months.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tolstoy’s "The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh.”

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer