maravedi

American  

[mar-uh-vey-dee] / ˌmær əˈveɪ di /

noun

plural

maravedis

1. a former gold coin issued by the Moors in Spain.

2. a former minor copper coin of Spain, discontinued in 1848.

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maravedi British  

/ ˌmærəˈveɪdɪ /

noun

1. any of various Spanish coins of copper or gold

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Etymology

Origin of maravedi

1530–40; < Spanish maravedí, from Arabic Murābitīn the Almoravids ( def. ); marabout

Example Sentences

And it not unfrequently happens, that, having lost his last maravedi, he stakes himself upon another throw, and becomes the temporary slave of the winner.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

I will not say How he won to the room of the lady:— Ah! to love is life and to live is gay, For the rest—a maravedi!

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

It will be finished in a couple of months without having cost the citizens or your Majesty a single maravedi.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

Not one maravedi would he give till a Spanish army was actually landed on English shores, and from this resolution he was not to be moved.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

This maravedi bore the ratio of 1: 6 to the old maravedi de oro.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur