单词 | patacon |
释义 | pataconn. 1. Any of various silver coins current in Portuguese and Spanish territories from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Portuguese coins portague1532 crusado1544 Portugal1546 Portuguese1577 patacon1584 vintem1584 milreis1589 pataca1625 moidore1710 octave1747 Johannes1758 joe1765 half joe1775 escudo1821 centavo1857 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver sixpence1563 patacon1584 tomin1589 pataca1625 fourpence-halfpenny1723 pistareen1744 1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 217 There [in Malacca] is also a sort of siluer money which they call Patachynes, and is worth 6. tanges. 1665 G. Turnbull Diary (1893) 315 We hired two wagons for 10 patagons. 1679 T. Oates True Narr. Horrid Plot 5 The Letter..was carried by a special messenger, for which he had 10 Pattacoones. 1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 53 England and Holland, should each..pay between them a Million of Pattacoons to the King of Portugal. 1780 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 82 10½ Florins = a Patacon. 1868 R. F. Burton Let. 11 Aug. in Lett. from Battle-fields Paraguay 103 The unit of value at Monte Vidéo is the Patacon. 1918 W. H. Hudson Far Away & Long Ago xx. 269 One of the boys would pretend to come on a valuable find—a big silver coin perhaps, a patacon. 1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 281 The silver patagon established types which were to remain almost constant [from 1599] till the late eighteenth century. 2000 Amer. Indian Q. (Nexis) 24 The peso corriente or patacon was worth 8 or 9 reales. 2. A monetary unit of the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina, being a government bond with a face value of one peso.The patacon was introduced in 2001 as a way of paying local workers without incurring further government debt. ΚΠ 2001 Bloomberg News (Nexis) 11 Aug. The patacon is the new currency of the province of Buenos Aires. 2001 Guardian 23 Aug. i. 24/3 More than 150,000 state employees in the province of Buenos Aires..were paid part of their salaries in one-year bonds called patacones. 2002 Newsweek (Atlantic ed.) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 40 The province's wages are paid mainly with the local currency, the patacon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1584 |
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