Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rix-dollar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An obsolete unit of currency used in Denmark, Norway and Danish territories.
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Examples
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A tradesman whose whole capital consists of ten rigsdaler is no tradesman.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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And the schoolmaster came out smiling, holding a pipe which was a good deal taller than I, held out his hand, and asked me to come in, gave me coffee at once, and expressed the profoundest contempt for the peasant who had charged two rigsdaler for such a trifle, and then left me in the road.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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A tradesman whose whole capital consists of ten rigsdaler is no tradesman.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884
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And the schoolmaster came out smiling, holding a pipe which was a good deal taller than I, held out his hand, and asked me to come in, gave me coffee at once, and expressed the profoundest contempt for the peasant who had charged two rigsdaler for such a trifle, and then left me in the road.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884
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"One rigsdaler and fifty öre each -- three rigsdalers in all."
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859
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The former get, on an average, fifty _rigsdaler_ ($13) per year, out of which they must clothe themselves: few of the latter can make one rigsdaler a day.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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They informed me that the usual wages in Dalecarlia were 24 skillings (13 cents) a day, and that one _tunne_ (about 480 lbs.) of rye cost 32 _rigsdaler_ ($8. 37-1/2).
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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The Finnish landlord gave me to understand, by holding up his fore-finger, and pronouncing the word "_üx_," that I was to pay one _rigsdaler_ (about 26 cents), for our entertainment, and was overcome with grateful surprise when I added a trifle more.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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I gave her a rigsdaler, which she took with joyful surprise, saying,
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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