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Definition of Crusadoes
1. crusado [n] - See also: crusado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusadoes
Literary usage of Crusadoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Eight hundred thousand Crusadoes in ... and shee bringeth from thence every yeere
above sixe hundred thousand Crusadoes : and all this Silver of Japan, ..."
2. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"Eight hundred thousand crusadoes in silver ... and she bringeth from thence every
yere above sixe hundred thousand crusadoes : and all this silver of Japan, ..."
3. Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies: From the by Robers Ruding (1840)
"Accordingly, the form of a proclamation was transmitted to England, on the 20th
of February in this year, whereby the Portugal crusadoes, weighing fourteen ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... a yearly salary of twelve thousand crusadoes, and two thousand crusadoes daily
for table-money, and appointments for his two sons, Frederick and ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1887)
"lars and gold nine pieces, great and little ; all is seventy two pounds now in
the Consul's hands, of Portuguese crusadoes one hundred and fourteen, ..."
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