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

Deze vloot verliet Goa den 8en Mei 1601 onder bevel van André Furtado de Mendoza en werd door Wolfert Harmensz voor Bantam verdreven, waarna Furtado de reis naar de Molukken voortzette.

From by

The money was in Brazilian currency, and, together, our money amounted to a hundred and fifty-five thousand reis—twenty reis equal to a cent of United States money.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous

But our cataract reis was prepared for this.

From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

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

The average price was 2200 reis per gal. of sugar-juice.

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