Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
rio .
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Examples
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Farm labourers are paid from six or seven riyos a year to as much as thirty riyos (the riyo being worth about 5s. 4d.); besides this, they are clothed and fed, not daintily indeed, but amply.
Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876
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_ Four bus make a _riyo >, _ or ounce; and any sum above three bus is spoken of as so many riyos and bus -- as 101 riyos and three bus equal 407 bus.
Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876
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_riyo_, or ounce; and any sum above three bus is spoken of as so many riyos and bus -- as 101 riyos and three bus equal 407 bus.
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880
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