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moidores

moidores is the plural of moidore.

Meaning of moidore

Noun

moidore (plural moidores)

  1. (historical) An old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732.
    • It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones’s hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and...1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

Questions about moidores

What is moidores the plural of?
Moidores is the plural of moidore.

Words near moidores in the dictionary

  1. moiderer
  2. moiderers
  3. moidering
  4. moiders
  5. moidore
  6. moidores
  7. moids
  8. Moieciu
  9. moietie
  10. moieties
  11. moiety

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