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‖ kreutzer|ˈkrɔɪtsə(r)|
Also (6 crocherd(e), 7 creitzer, 8 creutzer, crutzer, 9 kreuzer.
[Ger. kreuzer, f. kreuz cross; the coin having been originally stamped with a cross.]
A small coin (originally silver, afterwards copper) formerly current in parts of Germany and in Austria.
The value has varied, the most recent being the Bavarian kreutzer = (in the late 19th c.) about 1/3 of a penny, and the Austrian = (in the late 19th c.) about 1/4d.
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xiii. (1870) 157 They [the Dutch] haue crocherdes; iii crocherds is les worth than a styuer. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 67, I paid for my supper twenty creitzers. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3914/5 Worth..16 Creutzers, which is about 8 Pence English. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 121 This castle was built..in times when artificers worked for a crutzer a day. 1822W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 103 The gentlemen..pay each a piece of six kreutzers. 1874Ruskin Fors Clav. IV. 69 By this time I shouldn't have had a bit of skin left as big as a kreutzer. |