Crossword clues for moidore
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moidore \Moi"dore\, n. [Pg. moeda d'ouro, lit., coin of gold. Cf. Money, and Aureate.] A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.
Wiktionary
n. An old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732.
Wikipedia
Moidore is an archaic term used to describe gold coins of Portuguese origin. These coins usually feature a facial value of "4000 réis", the Portuguese Coat of Arms in its obverse, and the Order of Christ Cross in its reverse, and were minted from 1677 to as late as 1910, mainly in Portugal and in Portuguese colonies like Brazil and Mozambique.
The real (meaning "royal", plural: réis or [archaic] reais) was the currency unit of Portugal from around 1430 until 1911, when the escudo was introduced after the 1910 Republican Revolution.
Since the Portuguese empire spread throughout a vast number of territories that are now part of 53 different sovereign states, the moidore was used as currency not only in those regions but also in other regions of the globe, such as Western Europe and the West Indies. The currencies of several Arabic countries are named rial or riyal after the Portuguese real.
Usage examples of "moidore".
The Santa Anna, which he had waylaid, had proved to be a veritable treasure ship, laden with such minted coins as doubloons, golden moidores, pieces of eight, and cross money, to say nothing of plate, silks, lace, and other rare fabrics that would fetch good money at Port Royal, where unscrupulous traders were making fortunes.
However, when at last the job was done, and they tossed into the bucket the last few coins that remained, Biggles estimated that between forty and fifty thousand doubloons, moidores, and ducats, with a sprinkling of oriental pieces, had been carried.
Neither Gerard nor Torry sensed anything amiss, but Tom Moidore, that shrewd man of affairs, despite sitting opposite to Trish and Alien, felt rather than saw the silent message which passed between them.
He had remained silent after his re mark about South Africa and--last again--he walked to the drawing room to sit quiet, and outwardly deferential, on a chair near the sofa on which Torry and Trish sat, away from the armchairs of Gerard and Tom Moidore.
The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.
He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores.