any of various former minor coins issued by German states.
a former copper coin of Austria, one 100th of a florin.
First recorded in 1540–50; from German Kreuzer, equivalent to Kreuz “cross” (originally the device on the coin; see cross) + -er noun suffix ( see -er 1)
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He rummaged his pockets and turned his hat inside out, but all in vain; there was not even a kreutzer!
From Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)
From this decision the Emperor stood apart, with Bavaria and Salzburg, in putting the Reichs thaler at 96 kreutzer.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
The price is never increased or diminished by less than half a kreutzer, or two pfennigs, that is, one-third of a cent, per mass.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
Well, four gulden and forty kreutzer, besides fifteen kreutzer for the bread and five kreutzer for the salt, make altogether five gulden of the realm.
From The Chief Justice A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil
She has but a pittance left, so she puts into his hand twelve kreutzer, and a rusty old coin, as a pocketpiece.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
What’s more, Kreutzer and Krieps seem to buy into a tired conceit whereby self-annihilation becomes a trope for liberation and, heaven help us, “agency.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023
“If I were to put it into music terms, ‘Marie Antoinette’ is pop and ‘Corsage’ is acoustic,” Kreutzer said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Kreutzer had kind of forgotten about the window jump somewhere in the blur of filming and postproduction.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Making Elisabeth interestingly human proves more than enough, a feat that Kreutzer and Krieps accomplish to dazzling effect.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tolstoy’s "The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh.”
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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