escudos
- plural of escudo.
Example Sentences
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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
To keep pace with inflation the government has cranked out more and more escudos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each company gets 30 escudos in addition to the regular pay.
