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
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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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