reis

American  

[reys, reys] / reɪs, reɪs /

plural noun

singular

real

1. a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.

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Etymology

Origin of reis

1545–55; < Portuguese, plural of real real ²

Example Sentences

The crew consisted of a captain, or reis, as he is called, a pilot, and fourteen Arab sailors.

From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

Also a coin equal to two Spanish reals or twenty Portuguese reis, or ten of which made a cruzado.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

Her unit is the milreis, of 1000 reis.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

Formerly there was a small quantity brought to market, and sold for 14,000 reis the quintal.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

"It is a matter of five hundred reis."

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John