crusado
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crusadoes,
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crusados
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of crusado
First recorded in 1535–45, crusado is from the Portuguese word cruzado crossed, marked with a cross. See cross, -ate 1
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The vestments were of beaten gold, richly wrought and set with precious stones; and on the breast was a large carbuncle or ruby, as large as the coin called a crusado, which shone like fire.
I do not approve of this wholesale going to work, this impertinent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
He bequeathed 800,000 crusadoes for the retired women, 400,000 for the patients, one to each on leaving the hospital, and 400,000, dowry to 38 girls every year, at the period of the foundation, 1716.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria
It is computed that fifty millions of crusadoes, at least, were carried out of the country by the Portuguese returning to Lisbon.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria
I have houses, Jewels, and a poor remnant of crusadoes; Would those would make you charitable!
From The White Devil by Webster, John
Florins, crusadoes, ducats, patards, sols, and deniers fell into it thick as hail.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
Buy indulgences, my brothers; they are to be had for crusadoes, for gold florins.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
Would not you like to practise a little with your crusados at the Queen's ball before you go to the Holy Sepulchre?'
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The purser of the Santa Cruz deposed that the Madre de Dios contained precious stones, pearls, amber, and musk worth 400,000 crusados.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)
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