rigsdaler
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rigsdaler
From Danish, dating back to 1590–1600; rix-dollar
Example Sentences
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The King himself, who had read some of his poetry, sent him on a two-year tour of the Continent and granted him 400 rigsdaler a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 14, and gangly as a stork, Hans Christian stowed his toy theater, a loaf of bread and 13 rigsdaler into his knapsack and went to Copenhagen.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tradesman whose whole capital consists of ten rigsdaler is no tradesman.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
“One rigsdaler and fifty öre each—three rigsdalers in all.”
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Optic, Oliver
"Well," said I, "It is worth at least half a rigsdaler."
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
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