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 inGoa ,India .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The cura alone was in good spirits, and ready to back the "pardo" for another main.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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His grey cock ( "pardo") killed the alcalde's red one at a single blow, by striking one of his long steel galves through the latter's head.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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The former was a "pardo" negro; the latter, the offspring of an African and a mulatto union.
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Chavez is a “pardo” of mixed black, Amerindian, and European ancestry.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Love Life Of Hugo Chavez 2010
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Chavez is a “pardo” of mixed black, Amerindian, and European ancestry.
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Chavez is a “pardo” of mixed black, Amerindian, and European ancestry.
Allan Wall Interview on Breitbart TV´s B-Cast, 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time, April 30th 2010
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Someone deemed “black” in the United States for example—a person with both African and European heritage, such as President Barack Obama—would be considered pardo, or brown, in Brazil, according to the five racial categories that appear on its current census forms.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Someone deemed “black” in the United States for example—a person with both African and European heritage, such as President Barack Obama—would be considered pardo, or brown, in Brazil, according to the five racial categories that appear on its current census forms.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Bill Cullen, don pardo, game show, winning streak comments:
Winning Streak (1974) Kliph Nesteroff 2009
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I am going for X-Rays & a Sonegram tomorrow to see if they need to get my muscles to pick up the slack ... pardo the pun ... or do some nip-tuck.
Rolling down hills, disability the beauty of dew and resting. Elizabeth McClung 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pardo
"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