Crossword-Solution: MARAVEDI
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maravedi | n. | A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin. |
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| any of various Spanish coins of copper or gold | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MARAVEDI (5)
Corpo di Bacco! I would not have given ten maravedi for my head when those children of the devil were pushing us against the wall.
Still, for all that, it is a fine thing to be on the look-out for what may happen, crossing mountains, searching woods, climbing rocks, visiting castles, putting up at inns, all at free quarters, and devil take the maravedi to pay.” While this conversation passed between Sancho Panza and his wife, Don Quixote’s housekeeper and niece took him in and undressed him and laid him in his old bed.
The worth of a maravedi varied, from time to time, so that the calculations of the value of any number of maravedis are very confusing.
This point his Excellency conceded with the greatest candour; but (as, doubtless, the reader may have remarked in the course of his experience) to owe is not quite the same thing as to pay; and from the day of his winning the money until the day of his death the Warwickshire Squire did never, by any chance, touch a single bob, tizzy, tester, moidore, maravedi, doubloon, tomaun, or rupee, of the sum which Monsieur de Galgenstein had lost to him.
One I remember especially--one who never eased me personally of a single maravedi--one than whom I never met a bandit more gallant, courteous, and amiable.