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

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Etymology

Origin of duro

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

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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

This statue, of the marble called at Rome Greco duro, is reckoned one of the finest extant of the mirth-inspiring deity.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon

We, as state prisoners, were condemned to the carcere duro.

From My Ten Years' Imprisonment by Thomas Roscoe

He wandered from patron to patron, from place to place; proving, in his own bitter words, ‘How hard is the path, Come è duro calle.’

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

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

Now, I think I have had ample retribution out of that greasy matron at Bayonne, who exploited me when converting my honest notes of the Bank of England into Spanish duros.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea

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 Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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