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‖ peso|ˈpeso|
Also 6 peaso, 7 pezo.
[Sp. peso weight, a certain weight of precious metal, a coin of this weight:—L. pensum: see peise n.]
The name of a coin, either of gold (peso de oro) or silver (peso de plata), formerly current in Spain and its colonies; now, of a standard silver coin = (in 1905) 5 francs or 3s. 11½d., used in most of the S. American republics. The Mexican silver peso (then = 5·43 francs, or 4s. 3½d.) is known as the Mexican dollar.
1555Eden Decades 87 Those pieces of golde which they caule Pesos or golden Castellans. Ibid. 145 The weyght of eight thousand Pesos. 1595Drake's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 12 The whole..was yielded unto them for twenty-four thousand peasos, five shillings and sixpence a peece, to be payde in pearles. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 399 They gave 1500. Pezos of Gold for a Horse. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. I. Pref., In mentioning sums of money, I have uniformly followed the Spanish method of computing by pesos. 1850Prescott Peru II. iv. 86 On some days articles of the value of thirty or forty thousand pesos de oro were brought in, and occasionally of the value of fifty or even sixty thousand pesos. 1901Scotsman 11 Sept. 5/8 Colombia's financial straits are extreme, and the paper peso is worth less than three cents in gold. |