duro

[ door-oh; Spanish doo-raw ]

noun,plural du·ros [door-ohz; Spanish doo-raws]. /ˈdʊər oʊz; Spanish ˈdu rɔs/.
  1. a peso of Spain or Spanish America.

Origin of duro

1
1825–35; <Spanish, short for peso duro hard piastre; see dure1

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How to use duro in a sentence

  • Perhaps for much duros they have some time taken a Frank through Al Jezira at night.

    Miss Caprice | St. George Rathborne
  • For example, the alcalde gives him 60 duros as an advance for forty measures of sugar at the harvest time.

  • As his godson kissed his right hand again, the bull-fighter handed the boys a couple of duros with his left.

    The Blood of the Arena | Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • He still had three duros in his pocket, which he handed to his mother with the generosity of a great man.

    The Blood of the Arena | Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • Dismissal of the alcalde and compensation to the tune of fifty thousand duros.

    The Memoires of Casanova, Complete | Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

British Dictionary definitions for duro

duro

/ (ˈdʊərəʊ) /


nounplural -ros
  1. the silver peso of Spain or Spanish America

Origin of duro

1
from Spanish, shortened from peso duro hard peso, ultimately from Latin dūrus hard

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