scudo
Americannoun
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scudi
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of scudo
1635–45; < Italian < Latin scūtum shield
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He had made a little money, and had squandered most of it before he died, leaving the small remainder to his only son, who had spent every scudo of it in the first year.
From Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Then he gave the man a silver scudo.
From Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
In 1578 the scudo was rated at 7 lira 0 soldi.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
The hackney coaches moreover only ply till five o'clock, so if you go to a party at night, it costs you a scudo.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Our lives now did not seem worth a scudo.
From The Great White Army by Sir Max Pemberton
“I have not a friend in Rome; at least not one who would pay five scudi to rescue me from a rope.”
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
He had received an advance of 400 scudi on account of an altarpiece for St Peter’s, but after some lapse of years had made no beginning with the work.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
A stone of this beauty! a living head of Medusa—a front face, too—for two scudi!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
It grew upon him, and in a couple of evenings he lost the enormous sum of 14,400 scudi.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
A broad reminder from the cardinal put Reni on his mettle; he returned the 400 scudi, quitted Rome within a few days, and steadily resisted all attempts at recall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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