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  • noun Plural form of moidore.

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Examples

  • Portugal pieces, otherwise called moidores, which were at one time as current as guineas.

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Portugal pieces, otherwise called moidores, which were at one time as current as guineas.

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Portugal pieces, otherwise called moidores, which were at one time as current as guineas.

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

  • I remember thanking Jack, very composedly, for the interesting and agreeable communication; I then pulled out my canvas pouch, with my hoard of moidores, and taking out two pieces, I bid Jack keep the rest till I came back, as I was for a cruise about Auld Reekie.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Poor Jack would have given me shelter and clothes, and began to tell me of the moidores that were in bank, when I wanted them.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • I burst out a-laughing in his face, told him it was all a humbug, and that the moidores were all his own, henceforth and for ever, and so ran off.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • “Who could it be that has robbed me of my moidores and jewels?” exclaimed Miss Cunegund, all bathed in tears.

    Candide 2007

  • Lights flashed briefly on a console five thousand miles away and money moved, as readily as though gold moidores and pieces of eight had fallen glittering into a bank vault from thin air.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Among our Farmer's papers I have found a list of the money that he took with him to Philadelphia on one occasion -- 6 joes, 67 half joes, 2 one-eighteenth joes, 3 doubloons, 1 pistole, 2 moidores, 1 half moidore,

    George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

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  • "We can still appreciate the nostalgia of John Masefield's poem 'Cargoes,' with its

    'Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,

    Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,

    With a cargo of diamonds,

    Emeralds, amethysts,

    Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.'"

    --Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), xiv.

    November 26, 2016