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
I have houses, Jewels, and a poor remnant of crusadoes; Would those would make you charitable!
From The White Devil by John Webster
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
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 Maria Graham
These are all for a revolution; and, constituting the body of the nation, the other parts will follow them, The King's fifth of the mines, yields annually thirteen millions of crusadoes or half dollars.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
