cruzado
noun
cruzados
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pluralof cruzado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Companies were allowed to trade impounded cruzados for negotiable cruzeiros by using them to pay taxes and debts.
From Time Magazine Archive
They typically convert their currency -- pesos, cruzados or australes -- into U.S. dollars, because they are a better store of value.
From Time Magazine Archive
The currency of Madeira is principally composed of the old-fashioned twenty cent pieces, called cruzados, which pass at the rate of five for a dollar.
From Journal of an African Cruiser by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I had reserved 1000 cruzados for my own expenses, which I considered as quite sufficient, but they were gradually wasting away, for I was everywhere received, and in the best company of Rio.
From The Privateersman by Frederick Marryat
To reward the pilots, the Captain-Major presented them with two hundred cruzados in gold, to be given to their wives.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston
