Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The half-cuarto of the Spanish monetary system under Ferdinand and Isabella and their successors. Also called
chavo .
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Examples
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Era un cartapacio como de cien hojas, de ochavo de pliego, de letra menuda.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Era un cartapacio como de cien hojas, de ochavo de pliego, de letra menuda.
Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921
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Paco; and, if you like to sit down with us, you shall drink yourself blind without its costing on an _ochavo_. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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