Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name common to Brabantine and Portuguese coins from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The silver dollar so known was worth from 600 to 640 reis.
- noun A heavy Portuguese copper coin worth 40 reis, issued early in the nineteenth century.
- noun A Spanish silver coin of the value of 4s. 3d.
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Examples
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The province's wages are paid mainly with the local currency, the patacon.
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Then would come the most exciting part of the proceedings -- the cutting the gizzard open and the examination of its varied contents; and by and by there would be an exultant shout, and one of the boys would pretend to come on a valuable find -- a big silver coin perhaps, a _patacon, _ and there would be a great gabble over it and perhaps a fight for its possession, and they would wrestle and roll on the grass, struggling for the imaginary coin.
bilby commented on the word patacon
In Colombia, a snack made from squished plantain that is fried in oil then served with various sauces.
November 20, 2014