escudo
Americannoun
plural
escudos-
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
Etymology
Origin of escudo
1815–25; < Spanish: shield < Latin scūtum
Example Sentences
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El águila dorada del escudo mexicano estaba bordada en la parte superior de la falda y los lados estaban adornados con piezas metálicas doradas como los trajes tradicionales de los mariachis.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022
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
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
Divisions of the escudo are of silver, with values of 50, 20, and 10 centavos; subsidiary coins consist of bronze and nickel pieces.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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