scudo
noun
any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.
scudi
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pluralof scudo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Girolamo's salary from the English King was 400 scudi per annum.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler
He called him the Apelles of his time, and paid him one thousand scudi in gold for each portrait.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
Raphael of Urbino had painted for Agostino Chigi, at Santa Maria della Pace, some prophets and sibyls, on which he had received an advance of five hundred scudi.
From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton
He was in peasant garb—the same who had carried the requisition on the landlord of the lodgings, and brought back the three-score scudi.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
There is no lack of funds, however; so much so, that 20,000 scudi have been spent already on laying the foundation of the memorial pillar of the Council.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
