Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See pardao.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A money of account once used in in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts. (in 1913).

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  • noun historical A former money of account in Goa, India.

Etymologies

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Portuguese pardao, from Sanskrit word meaning "splendour, majesty".

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  • "The name of a vessel used in the Chinese seas, both for trade and war; they are not so large as junks, but similar, except that their sails are slackly laced by one side to the masts, instead of being suspended by a yard."

    Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 333

    October 11, 2008