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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"Tell him it will cost us a scudo and a half apiece."
From Rollo in Rome by Jacob Abbott
Then he gave the man a silver scudo.
From Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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
A scudo is a dollar, and a dollar has five francs, so that I wanted a thousand francs.
From A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
"Why," said his friend, "it is not worth a scudo."
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner
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
A youth called Fair Brow sets out to trade with six thousand scudi, which he pays to bury a debtor on the shore, for whom passers-by are giving alms.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould
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
To his aged parent, in her humble Connaught cabin, he had sent the twenty scudi he had received as bounty.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various
Che! due scudi? what do you mean by two scudi?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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