moidore

English

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Etymology

From Portuguese moeda de ouro, literally "golden coin".

Noun

moidore (plural moidores)

  1. (historical) An old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones’s hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, […]

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