scudo
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Origin of scudo
1635–45; < Italian < Latin scūtum shield
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Shields: Crowns, so called from the shields stamped on them; French, "ecu;" Italian, "scudo."
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
For instance, if two baiocchi be staked on an ambo, the prize is one scudo; but if the same sum be staked on a terno, the prize is a hundred scudi.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
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
"Tell him it will cost us a scudo and a half apiece."
From Rollo in Rome by Abbott, Jacob
The iperpero was worth 12 grossi, and 3 of them went to a scudo.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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
True, some 30,000 scudi have been given in charity, of which the Pope granted 25,000; but there is that which is even more blessed than food—it is liberty.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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 Bolton, Sarah K.
“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 Reid, Mayne
Fontana advanced a thousand scudi for the completion of the work, and had the delicacy never to allow the cardinal to imagine that he was indebted to him.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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