duro
[doo r-oh; Spanish doo-raw]
- a peso of Spain or Spanish America.
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Origin of duro
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A Fashion Week pop-up exhibition by designer Duro Olowu exhibits his enthusiastic, art-influenced worldview.
Historical Examples
A peso, or duro, is the same as our dollar: it is a silver coin.
She had given him a duro, one of those white discs which, in that atheistic age, so rarely ascended that mountain trail!
The TorrentVicente Blasco Ibaez
Duro li sar a ricalcitrare a Dio, se tutto lo sforzo umano avessero.
A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2)T. Adolphus Trollope
The deficiency was remedied by the soldier who was in charge of me for the consideration of a duro.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
Duro has of late published in his Coln y Pinzon what purports to be a list of their names.
duro
- the silver peso of Spain or Spanish America
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Word Origin
from Spanish, shortened from peso duro hard peso, ultimately from Latin dūrus hard
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