crusado

American  

[kroo-sey-doh, -zah-] / kruˈseɪ doʊ, -ˈzɑ- /

noun

• crusadoes,
  plural
• crusados
  plural

1. an early Portuguese coin of gold or silver, bearing the figure of a cross.

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crusado British  

/ kruˈzɑːdu, kruːˈzeɪdəʊ, kruːˈseɪdəʊ /

noun

1. a former gold or silver coin of Portugal bearing on its reverse the figure of a cross

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• crusadoes
  plural
• crusados
  plural

Etymology

Origin of crusado

First recorded in 1535–45, crusado is from the Portuguese word cruzado crossed, marked with a cross. See cross, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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I do not approve of this wholesale going to work, this impertinent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The vestments were of beaten gold, richly wrought and set with precious stones; and on the breast was a large carbuncle or ruby, as large as the coin called a crusado, which shone like fire.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

I have houses,   Jewels, and a poor remnant of crusadoes;   Would those would make you charitable!

From The White Devil by John Webster

Peter the Hermit conjured up the first crusadoes against the infidels by running about from monarch to monarch.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Florins, crusadoes, ducats, patards, sols, and deniers fell into it thick as hail.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

The King's fifth of the mines yields annually thirteen millions of crusadoes or half dollars.

From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson

Buy indulgences, my brothers; they are to be had for crusadoes, for gold florins.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

Would not you like to practise a little with your crusados at the Queen's ball before you go to the Holy Sepulchre?'

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The purser of the Santa Cruz deposed that the Madre de Dios contained precious stones, pearls, amber, and musk worth 400,000 crusados.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing