Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Indo-Portuguese money of account of Goa, worth about 60 United States cents.
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Examples
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Touching the money of Ormuz, they bargaine in marchandize at so many leches by the barre, which lech is 100 Asaries, and maketh larines 100 and a halfe, which maketh pardaos 38, and larines one halfe, at larines 5 by the pardao.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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