Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
crusado .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A coin. See
crusado .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The monetary unit of
Brazil from 1986 to 1990. - noun An old monetary unit of
Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries
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Examples
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Así es que nos hemos cruzado con la fabulosa idea de Logos.
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Bueno, en mis talleres literarios me he cruzado con alumnos que llegaron a decirme que "suena mejor escribir de tú".
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2009
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Estábamos en el sitio del cual parece que se inspiraron los que crearon "SpongeBob SquarePants", porque el sitio se llamaba "Crabby Joe" o algo así, por allá por las playas en Daytona, y mientras me encontraba admirando este chinchorro montado sobre el mar con un puente cruzado, vi un pedazo de madera pintado que decía una frase que adoptaré como mi "motto": "dream of tomorrow but live for today".
cruda Diary Entry cruda 2005
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The conversion of the Brazilian cruzado to its foreign exchange equivalent poses special problems.
Chapter 7 1994
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However, when the value of the cruzado, or the austral, or the boliviano, or the Colombian peso drops, no one helps.
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The austral and cruzado programs have missed many targets and used price controls as a tool, but we should not overlook their very substantial progress.
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[63] The cruzado was an old coin of Castilla and Portugal.
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Significaba ser vencedor del Capitán del siglo; ser soldado de Bailén y Zaragoza; [51-4] ser defensor de la historia, de la tradición, de la fe antigua; mantenedor de la independencia de las naciones; paladín [51-5] de Cristo; cruzado [51-6] de la libertad.
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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The value of an arroba of gold is 15,000 Brazilian cruzados (each cruzado being 50 sous).
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If one, by cheating and roguery, gains a cruzado in the presence of another, the latter instantly says I cry halves, and if the first refuse he is instantly threatened with an information.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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