scudo
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scudi
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noun
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Origin of scudo
1635–45; < Italian < Latin scūtum shield
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Thus, for one baiocco staked al posto assegnato, a scudo may be won; but to gain a scudo on a number senza posto, seven baiocchi must be played.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
In silver, there is the scudo of six livres, the mezzo scudo of three; and the quarto, or pezza di trenta soldi: but all these are very scarce.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
"Tell him it will cost us a scudo and a half apiece."
From Rollo in Rome by Jacob Abbott
A car costs a scudo, and a man four carlins, a day.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
Not one scudo would I take under the price that I have named.
From Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
And as the hall must be abandoned as utterly useless, the 120,000 scudi lavished on preparing it are wasted.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
Throwing themselves upon their knees, they offered a nosegay and twenty scudi with the request that this might be employed to ornament the balcony in which the Roman Senate sate in the Piazza del Popolo.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
In the year 1612, the church benefices already conferred upon Cardinal Scipione Borghese were computed to secure him an income of 150,000 scudi.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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
Still further, I give her the power to leave by will 200 scudi more of my estate.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
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