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† portague, -igue Obs.
Forms: 6 portygewe, -ingue, -ugue, 6–7 -ague, -egue, -igue.
[App. a false singular deduced from porta-, porteguse (Portuguese B. 3), taken as a plural, as if portagues.]
A Portuguese gold coin, the great ‘crusado’, current in the 16th century; its value ranged, according to time and circumstances, between {pstlg}3. 5s. and {pstlg}4. 10s.: = Portugal 4.
Often kept as an heirloom or keepsake: see quots.
1532in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. xviii. 138 By Hasilwood of the receipt iiij portagues 10. 00. 00. 1535Bury Wills (Camden) 127 To my nece Harvy my portygewe of gold. 1577Harrison England ii. xxv. (1877) i. 364 The portigue, a peece verie solemnelie kept of diuerse. 1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xxviii. 54 Our Coyne, be they as little as Pence, or as great as Portigues. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. iii, No gold about thee? Dru. Yes, I haue a portague I ha' kept this halfe yeere. 1658Phillips, Portegue, a certain Coyn in Gold, valuing three pound ten shillings. |