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

The pasto duro is largely composed of the genera Stipa and Melica.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Now and anon, however, after long conferences, some old patriarch, with a beard like those of saints by the Old Masters, detaches himself from the party and goes to risk the family duro.

From Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet

The same museum possesses a study in gesso duro for one of the panels, which appears to be the original sketch by Luca’s own hand.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

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

I warrant it would melt down into a hundred good duros with the double pillar upon each of them.

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

Before going to his province, he borrows 8,000 or 10,000 duros from one of the charitable funds at such and such a per cent.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne