Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of currency and coin formerly used in Italy and Sicily.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silver coin current in various parts of Italy during the eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies.
- noun The space inclosed within the outer rim of the bezel of a ring; also, a bezel in sense 3 , used especially for rings of classical antiquity in which there is an engraved device upon the metal itself. See
bezel , 3 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.
- noun A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The former monetary unit of Italy, Bolivia and Malta during the 18th and 19th century.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The scudo also underwent fluctuations, in the market and in its weight: the so called scudo delle stampe (1595) was worth 184·2 baiocchi, that is, a little less than 2 scudi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Ten bajocchi make a paolo: ten paoli make a scudo, which is an imaginary piece: two scudi make a zequine; and a French loui’dore is worth two zequines and two paoli.
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In silver, there is the scudo of six livres, the mezzo scudo of three; and the quarto, or pezza di trenta soldi: but all these are very scarce.
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At some distance from the more frequented parts of the city, a man may hire a large house for thirty crowns a year: but near the center, you cannot have good lodgings, ready furnished, for less than a scudo (about five shillings) a day.
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For a decent first floor and two bed-chambers on the second, I payed no more than a scudo (five shillings) per day.
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A good tree like those in my garden yields me eight _sacks of shelled fruit_ on an average every year; and a sack of walnuts fetches from a scudo to ten pauls (four shillings and sixpence) in the market.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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The priest is received with bows at the door, and when the benediction is over he is rewarded with the gratuity of a _paul_ or a _scudo_, according to the piety and purse of the proprietor; while into the basket of his attendant is always dropped a _pagnotta_, a couple of eggs, a _baiocco_, or some such trifle.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Francesco, who, delighted to find out he had not killed his passenger and so lost a scudo, at once harnessed in three horses abreast to the
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Taking a gold scudo, one of those dear little one-dollar pieces the Romans call _far-fálle_ (butterflies) from his pocket, he thus addressed her:
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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When he came out, he found he had half a scudo to pay for the water, half a scudo for towels, quarter of a scudo for soap, and another quarter scudo for a _buono mano_ to the bath-girl.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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