Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to large silver coins current, chiefly during the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, in several European countries (Germany, Sweden, Denmark, etc.). The value varied between $1.15 and 60 cents United States money, but was usually a little over $1.
- noun An English colonial coin and money of account, derived from the Dutch, in Ceylon, Cape Colony, and Malacca.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See
rigsdaler ,riksdaler , andrixdaler .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ibsen was now beginning, rather shyly, very craftily, to invest money; he even found himself in frequent straits for ready coin from his acute impatience to set every rix-dollar breeding.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Ibsen was now beginning, rather shyly, very craftily, to invest money; he even found himself in frequent straits for ready coin from his acute impatience to set every rix-dollar breeding.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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I requested something to eat first, not having dined; and the hostess, whom I have mentioned to you before as knowing how to take care of herself, brought me a plate of fish, for which she charged a rix-dollar and a half.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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I never saw any silver pieces there, and could not without difficulty, and giving a premium, obtain the value of a rix-dollar in a large copper coin to give away on the road to the poor who open the gates.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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I once showed one of their chiefs a rix-dollar; he asked how much it was worth among the Christians; and when I told him, he laughed exceedingly at us, saying we were fools to value a piece of iron so highly; and if he had such money, he would throw it into the river.
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I would have paid a rix-dollar admission if she had been exhibited for money.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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Ibsen was now beginning, rather shyly, very craftily, to invest money; he even found himself in frequent straits for ready coin from his acute impatience to set every rix-dollar breeding.
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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"'Twill be eating coined money," said he; "for the burgomaster of Dusseldorf had given us a rix-dollar for these ears, as proving the death of their owners; but better a lean purse than a lere stomach."
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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The sub-prior forced a rix-dollar on Gerard, and several brushes and colours out of the convent stock, which was very large.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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It was a sum of money, that had been weighed, rix-dollar by rix-dollar, against the blood of Gustavus.
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829
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March 4, 2008