escudo
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- noun
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escudo
- Indeed, an old woman struggling up a hilly street in Lisbon, seeing me seated on a doorstep eating a piece of bread and cheese, had stopped for breath, opened her purse, and pushed a 5 escudo piece (less than a dime) into my hand, saying, "This is no charity, this is pleasure."
- hundred escudos
Examples
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One hundred escudos would be quite enough for two.
Fiction book (1995) -
Seventy-five escudos is a lot for someone who doesn't know where his next day's bread is coming from.
Fiction book (1995) -
For every head, he would receive one hundred escudos.
Fiction book (1995) -
Each head is a hundred escudos.
Fiction book (1995) -
My friend here has a nice fat packet of escudos to lose... on your wheel.
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Each one would receive seventy-five escudos as an advance.
Fiction book (1995) -
IBAYE: Last year, 120,000 escudos.
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The cook went back to his game, a pile of colorful 10,000 Escudo notes stacked up before him, probably more money than he had seen in his entire life.
Fiction book (1997) -
I exchanged my dollars for escudo to spend during my vacation in Cape Verde.
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A meal at a local restaurant costs about fifty escudos.
Synonyms
The main money used in Cape Verde is equal to 100 centavos
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Escudo used in Cape Verde comes from Portuguese escudo and the Latin scutum, meaning 'shield', reflecting the same coin design idea. Cape Verde kept this name for its own currency after independence because of its historical links with Portugal.