单词 | real of plate |
释义 | > as lemmasreal of plate 1. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a small silver coin and money of account (no longer in general use). (a) More fully real of plate. A former Spanish coin, the real de plata (largely circulated in the United States until c1850, and in Mexico until 1897), equal to an eighth of a dollar (see also quot. 1976). Cf. rial n.1 2a, rial of plate at rial n.1 2b, and medio real at medio n. Now chiefly historical. (b) The former Spanish monetary unit, the real (de) vellon (not current as a coin), equal to a quarter of a peseta. Cf. vellon n. Now historical.The real of plate was formerly known in the northern U.S. as a Mexican shilling (Mexican n. and adj. Compounds 3) or Spanish shilling, and in the south as a levy (levy n.2). See also bit n.2 10. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific Spanish maravedi1540 real1558 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver > real de plata rial1508 rial of plate1555 real1558 royal of plate1559 royal1587 platea1593 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 116v You shall put to it these thinges folowinge,..Syluer heaten, or Siluerfoile, the weight of a Spanish Reall, Sal Armoniacke, waying three times as much, Salte Peter the weighte of fiue Realles. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. x. 655 Euery Indian payeth tribute to the King [of Spain] twelue Realls of Plate. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 97 The Muscovites..carry them [sc. Rixdollers] to the Mint, as they do also Spanish Reals. 1705 S. Sewall Diary 1 Jan. (1973) I. 516 I admitted it: gave him 3 Reals. 1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 89 All they owed to the crown..which does not amount to less than sixty millions of reals. 1817 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 5) II. iii. xii. 489 The highest price in 1790 was 109 reals vellon. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado II. xiii. 84 The money..was paid to me in quarter-dollars, reals, and medios, which it took me more than an hour to count. 1882 Harper's Mag. Mar. 545/1 At the third and least objectionable the price of rooms was at the exceedingly reasonable figure of two reals a night. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 385/2 She began it [sc. the building of a Franciscan nunnery] with one hundred reals (one pound sterling) lent her by a devotee, and it was completed in fourteen years by voluntary gifts. 1976 A. Parades Texas-Mexican Cancionero Gloss. Real. Formerly a coin worth one-eighth of a peso or 12½ centavos... The coin no longer exists, but the real still is used as a unit of monetary value in some parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States. 2005 M. Chaplan Urban Treasure Hunter ii. 23 Among their recoveries have been coins and artifacts from both the pre- and post-Civil War eras. Currently, their key finds are old Spanish reals. < as lemmas |
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