duro

American  

[door-oh, doo-raw] / ˈdʊər oʊ, ˈdu rɔ /

noun

duros plural

1. a peso of Spain or Spanish America.

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duro British  

/ ˈdʊərəʊ /

noun

1. the silver peso of Spain or Spanish America

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• duros
  plural

Etymology

Origin of duro

1825–35; < Spanish, short for peso duro hard piastre; see dure ¹

Example Sentences

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duro duros

They rely on their cheese blend — mozzarella, quesillo and crumbly Salvadoran queso duro — to bind ingredients, such as the carrots, beets and sweet potato in the superb “dulce” pupusa.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022

What I learned in Honduras comes down to three things: Fe, familia y trabajo duro.

From Time ● Nov. 3, 2016

Marmor Parium, or Marmo Greco duro, as it is called by the modern Italians, is the very flower and consummation of the rocks.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

SEMOLINA.—This is the heart of the grano duro wheat of Italy, which is imported for the purpose of making the best vermicelli.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

But each link hath the stamp upon it—the mint stamp of Seville—and will pass current for a good duro wherever one may chance to be.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Across the street, every day, there is an unofficial market where Latino vendors sell ears of corn, bags of duros, clothing and toys around the parking lot of a discount department store.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

There is no hard money in Spain, no more big duros for shopkeepers to clank on their counters.

From Time Magazine Archive

"At a thousand duros apiece," he said to me in Spanish.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

A workman can make about 150 cigars a day; the rate of pay is about 10 Spanish piasters or duros for 1000.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

"I would not drink it in the house if you should give me five duros!"

From Maximina by Palacio Valdés, Armando