escudo
Americannoun
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a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
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a former coin and monetary unit of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
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a former paper money and monetary unit of Chile, equal to 100 condors or 1000 pesos, replaced by the new peso in 1975.
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any of various former gold coins of Spain, Spanish America, and Portugal.
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a former silver coin of Spain, discontinued in 1868.
noun
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the standard monetary unit of Cape Verde, divided into 100 centavos
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the former standard monetary unit of Portugal, divided into 100 centavos; replaced by the euro in 2002
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a former monetary unit of Chile, divided into 100 centesimos
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an old Spanish silver coin worth 10 reals
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Etymology
Origin of escudo
1815–25; < Spanish: shield < Latin scūtum
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The actual value of all the lost loot is infinitely higher, since some 17th century coins and jewelry fetch huge prices; a single Spanish escudo can bring as much as $1,200 on the rare-coin market.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Latin American spiral is largely the result of instability in the peso, escudo or cruzeiro, which in turn increases import prices and wrecks wage levels.
From Time Magazine Archive
PORTUGAL, which for cognoscenti has long been a charming backwater, may be Europe's best bargain as a result of a 45% devaluation of the escudo in one year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta is semi-stabilized on a gold basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the right sleeve, half-way between the shoulder and the elbow, was fixed a small silver plate, called an escudo, and a rosary was worn round her neck.
From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong
Vendors have recently taken to marketing them as match-day scarves, while in Spanish they are labeled, more lyrically, bufandas con los dos escudos, or scarves with two shields.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2015
Nobody wants their 10,000-euro nest egg to be suddenly turned into 10,000 much-less-valuable new escudos.
From Slate ● May 17, 2012
Owing euros to depositors, and getting devalued drachmas, or lira, or escudos or pesetas from borrowers is one way to make capital vanish.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2011
Forthwith, his men scooped pesos, francs, escudos, lire, rubles, pounds sterling and about $19 million in U.S. currency into the suitcases.
From Time Magazine Archive
The local railway chief was more than anxious to see us off, as I added another five to the five escudos already given.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin
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