crusado
noun
an early Portuguese coin of gold or silver, bearing the figure of a cross.
crusadoes
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pluralof crusado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
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 Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Peter the Hermit conjured up the first crusadoes against the infidels by running about from monarch to monarch.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
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 Maria Graham
To the two brothers was paid a gratification of two thousand crusadoes to each of them, and a thousand to Nicolas Coelho.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
