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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of escudo
1815–25; < Spanish: shield < Latin scūtum
Example Sentences
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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
Its president, Karl Otto Pohl, and his cohort are still wrestling with an unfinished European Monetary System, involving commitments to support newcomers like the Greek drachma and the Portuguese escudo.
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
Last week, having accounted for the very last nickel, yen, leu, franc, shilling, florin, drachma, peso, pengo, rupee, escudo, zloty, mark and finmark.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gold coins authorized by this law are the condor of 20 pesos, the medio condor, or doblon, of 10 pesos, and the escudo of 5 pesos.
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