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Definition of Patacas
1. pataca [n] - See also: pataca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patacas
Literary usage of Patacas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Voyages to North-America by Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan, Victor Hugo Paltsits (1905)
"The Captains of the King's Ships have commonly twenty two patacas a Month; ...
of Marines has ten patacas a Month. An Able Sailor has four patacas a Month. ..."
2. New Voyages to North-America by Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan, Victor Hugo Paltsits (1905)
"The Captains of the King's Ships have commonly twenty two patacas a Month; ...
of Marines has ten patacas a Month. An Able Sailor has four patacas a Month. ..."
3. Insurance Regulation and Supervision in Asia by Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (1999)
"... required capital is 30 million patacas to transact life insurance and 15
million patacas to transact non-life insurance: - For a reinsurer incorporated ..."
4. The universal cambist, and commercial instructor by Patrick Kelly (1811)
"A Sultanin passes for 8^ patacas Chicas, more or less; a Sequin, ... A Spanish
Dollar is worth from 4f to 4^ patacas Chicas; hence the said Pataca = Il^d. ..."
5. The elements of commerce; or, A treatise on different calculations [&c.]. by Christopher Dubost (1806)
"In patacas chicas, or patacas of ... The coins of Algiers are as follow: The
pataca gouda or gorda, of 3 patacas chicas; ..."
6. History of Brazil by Robert Southey (1817)
"Negroes three hundred patacas per head, p.- 53.] 1 have lately procured a copy
of Nienhof in the original: the price is stated there, as in th« translation, ..."
7. The History of Brazil: From the Period of the Arrival of the Braganza Family by John Armitage (1836)
"I fixed the price at six patacas per pound, but I consider this too little.
Eight patacas could be afforded, and it would be well to give the cultivators ..."
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