escudo

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Portuguese escudo (“shield”). Doublet of scutum, scute, écu, and scudo.

Bastará con dos mil escudos de presente y caución de todos sus bienes... PANTALÓN. — Tres Comedias : $b Sin querer; De pequenas causas...; Los intereses creados, Jacinto Benavente
The real is a quarter of a peseta, but the escudo of ten reales has been suppressed. — Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics, Oliver Optic
The local railway chief was more than anxious to see us off, as I added another five to the five escudos already given. — Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude, Austin Bidwell

Portuguese escudo

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