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escudo

/e-skoo-doh; Portuguese es-koo-doo; Spanish es-koo-thaw/US // ɛˈsku doʊ; Portuguese ɛsˈku dʊ; Spanish ɛsˈku ðɔ //UK // (ɛˈskuːdəʊ, Portuguese ɪʃˈkuðu) //

擒拿手,擒贼先擒王,擒拿,擒拿术

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

Examples

  • 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.

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