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Definition of Pataca
1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Macao.
Definition of Pataca
1. n. The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.
Definition of Pataca
1. Noun. The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos. ¹
2. Noun. A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in Malta in the form of a large copper coin. ¹
3. Noun. A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pataca
1. a monetary unit of Macao [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pataca
Literary usage of Pataca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Numismatic Names, Their Official and Popular Designations by Albert Romer Frey (1917)
"The Species Thaler is so called in Abyssinia. See Wakea. pataca Chica and pataca
... See pataca. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"One, who had murdered a priest, was called "O Padre," the priest; another, who
had murdered a man for his money and had found but half a pataca upon him, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1839)
"pataca, a silver coin of Brazil, of 600 and 640 rees, current only in that country.
Kelly gives the sterling value of two or three sorts: the old pataca of ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"Nao ver pataca, (speaking of a horse,) to pace.1 on which cattle feed or graze:
... Comer a pataca, to be quite ignorant; horse that paces, or that goes a' ..."
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