escudo

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Currency: 1 Cape Verdean escudo (CVEsc) = 100 centavos

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  1. noun See Table at currency.
  2. noun The primary unit of currency in Portugal before the adoption of the euro.

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  • Noel Williams se ganó rápidamente el corazón de un numeroso grupo de aficionados por su gran entrega y profesionalidad, por su lucha y lealtad a nuestros colores, y sobre todo, por haber besado nuestro escudo después de marcar un gol que nos dio la victoria en el estadio de nuestro máximo rival, el Hércules de Alicante. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Pelo visto, o Twitterbrasil. org foi o escudo do Twitter. com, afinal, se não tivesse errado o alvo, a plataforma de postagem estaria então fora do ar? —  Global Voices Online
  • Agora, que o "escudo" foi tirado da batalha, o que vai acontecer? —  Global Voices Online
  • When things were at their worst in Chile under the Marxists in the 1970s, customers lined up outside shops every day without asking what was in stock, on the well-founded assumption that anything they could buy would hold its value better than the escudo. —  Latest Articles
  • It has plainly been good for Portugal where we used to sneer at the escudo but where the economy has blossomed since it embraced the EU mainstream.
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Portuguese and Spanish, shield, escudo, from Latin scūtum, shield; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Spanish (= Italian scudo = French écu, a coin), from Latin scutum, a shield: see scutum, scudo, écu.
 

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/ɛsˈkudoʊ/
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