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douro|ˈdʊərəʊ|
Also duro.
[Fr., ad. Sp. duro.]
A former Spanish coin.
1870Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. 12 Apr. (1911) I. 105, I got for a duro a small specimen of the embossed tile. 1872Ibid. 26 May 145 We gave a douro and a half (6/3). 1905Daily Chron. 21 June 5/4 That the Moorish Government should pay 9,000 douros by way of compensation. 1905Westm. Gaz. 12 Sept. 2/1 No, my daughter, a douro, that is sufficient. Another sou would be excessive. 1908Ibid. 21 July 5/1 The new law provides that all these Seville douros shall be confiscated. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. June 383/2 He proposes forty douros as a fair price... A douro is equal to five francs. 1962R. A. G. Carson Coins 317 In 1848 a new decimal coinage created new denominations... In silver the denominations were the douro and its half of 20 and 10 reals respectively. |