cruzados
- plural of cruzado.
Example Sentences
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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
Companies were allowed to trade impounded cruzados for negotiable cruzeiros by using them to pay taxes and debts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
He gave him also a hundred cruzados and a hundred testoons, besides the payment due to him, and goods and other presents, so that the honest broker departed highly pleased.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Marryat, Frederick
