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  • noun Plural form of crusado.

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Examples

  • The purser of the Santa Cruz deposed that the Madre de Dios contained precious stones, pearls, amber, and musk worth 400,000 crusados.

    Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

  • Would not you like to practise a little with your crusados at the Queen's ball before you go to the Holy Sepulchre? '

    Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Pieces of eight of Mexico, Seville, and Pillar, ducatoons of Flanders, French ecus, or silver Louis, crusados of Portugal

    Notes on the State of Virginia. 1826

  • Pillar, ducatoons of Flanders, French ecus, or silver Louis, crusados of Porrtugal 3 3/4 d. the dwt. -- 4 d. the dwt.

    Notes on the State of Virginia 1781

  • Pepys at my house; but I was called from dinner by a note from Mr. Moore to Alderman Backwell's, to see some thousands of my Lord's crusados weighed, and we find that

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Then he and I to Alderman Backwell's and did the like there, and I gave one receipt for all the money I have received thence upon the receipt of my Lord's crusados.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up early about business and then to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore, and spoke to my Lord about the exchange of the crusados

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • In the evening with Mr. Moore to Backwell's with another 1,200 crusados and saw them weighed, and so home and to bed.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • After office done, I went down to the Towre Wharf, where Mr. Creed and Shepley was ready with three chests of the crusados, being about L6000, ready to bring to shore to my house, which they did, and put it in my further cellar, and Mr. Shepley took the key.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • In the evening with Mr. Moore to Backwell's with another 1,200 crusados and saw them weighed, and so home and to bed.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

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