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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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The price is never increased or diminished by less than half a kreutzer, or two pfennigs, that is, one-third of a cent, per mass.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

"And I cannot go back to the 'Lame Cow' for I have not a kreutzer left in my wallet wherewith to pay for a sip."

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

"I will suffer nothing to leave the house till I am paid to the last kreutzer," said Kraus, sternly; "the law is with me, and I know it."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

"You needn't tell everything to the last kreutzer," said he.

From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

While dinner was being prepared she told me she was in the greatest distress; had not even a single kreutzer to pay postage, and, worst of all, was owing for two weeks' board.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Austin Bidwell

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

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023

Krieps also won for her performance at the European Film Awards, where the movie was nominated for best European film and Kreutzer was nominated for directing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

Some have compared it to Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette,” though, as one person told Kreutzer, “less ironic.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 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