escudo 的定义
plural es·cu·dos [e-skoo-dohz; Portuguese es-koo-doos; Spanish es-koo-thaws]. /ɛˈsku doʊz; Portuguese ɛsˈku dʊs; Spanish ɛsˈku ðɔs/.
- a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
- a former coin and monetary unit of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
- a former paper money and monetary unit of Chile, equal to 100 condors or 1000 pesos, replaced by the new peso in 1975.
- any of various former gold coins of Spain, Spanish America, and Portugal.
- a former silver coin of Spain, discontinued in 1868.
更多escudo例句
- Before every storm the boat of phantoms appeared, and when he sailed for Escudo and Porto Bello it followed him.
- The largest weight is the tàhel, which is the weight of ten reals of silver—or, as we say, of one escudo.
- The Isabellan silver escudo, adopted in Spain as the unit by the law of June 24, 1864, was thereby demonetized.
- The real of eight received a new name, Escudo de plata, and was to issue at an equivalence of 10 reals of the new silver.
- The nearest relatives received an 'escudo de oro,' or two-dollar piece.