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▪ I. ‖ crusado1|kruːˈseɪdəʊ|
Also 6 cru(e)sadowe, 7–9 cruzado, 8 crusada, (crusad, cruzate, 8–9 crusade).
[ad. Pg. cruzado lit. ‘crossed, marked with the cross’.]
A Portuguese coin bearing the figure of a cross, originally of gold, later also of silver; the new crusado is of 480 reis (161/4 grains of gold or 219 grains of silver) = about 2s. 4d. sterling (1893).
1544Will of R. Osborne (Somerset Ho.), One syde Crusadowes & the other side haulfe Aungelle. 1577Harrison England ii. xxv. (1877) i. 364 Of forren coines we haue..ducats..crusadoes [etc.]. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iv. 26. 1683 Brit. Spec. 267 Eight hundred Millions of Reas, or two Millions of Crusadoes, amounting to about three hundred thousand pounds sterling. 1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3086/2 The Crusado of Portugal..to pass at 3sh. 6d. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Cruzado..is a Portuguese coin, struck under Alphonsus V about the year 1457, at the time when pope Calixtus sent thither the bull for a croisade, against the infidels. 1853Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. III. xxxii. 406 note, The value of an arroba of gold is 15,000 Brazilian crusados (each cruzado being 50 sous).
▪ II. ‖ cruˈsado2 Obs.
[a. Sp. and Pg. cruzado, OPg. crusado, corresp. to F. croisé a crusader, lit. a crossed man, one that has received or assumed the sign of the cross: cf. croises.]
A crusader.
1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 92 In such gallant bravadoe termes runnith your mill crusadoe rhetorick. 1619Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent viii. (1676) 746 Provision was not made for the Crusadoes. 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. viii. vi. §4. 1267 An Armie of Crusado's.
Hence † crusado, cruzado v., to cross, engage as a crusader; = croise v. 2.
1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 327 Which were Cruzadoed or voluntarily went unto the Holy Land..for recovery of it.
▪ III. crusado3
var. of crusada = crusade. |