conto
noun
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
contos
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pluralof conto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Paid Shepherd, Clewley, Clare, Commissary, Doctors Escrivaõ, Jannary, and the Pilot, a proportion of 80 contos, in course of payment by the Junta.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
I therefore use the freedom to assure Your Excellency the amount of 400 contos of Reis, as an indemnification for your losses.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
The sum required was a large one, 20,000 contos, and the venerable Bishop hastened to assure him, with unfeigned sorrow, that the poor and suffering city could not command one-fourth of the amount.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Have you heard tell of the famous diamond of Abaete, which was valued at more than two million contos of reis?
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
Took at Admiral's desire 500 dollars for my distribution of the 100 contos in part received—from which it appears that I am to have half per cent, for distribution.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
