rix-dollar

名词 n.
/ˈɹɪksˌdɒlə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16ᵗʰ to the mid-19ᵗʰ centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks. historical
    — At all other times they would receive the regular salary of thirty rix-dollars monthly.
  2. A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon. historical
    — Such had the business become before Lord Somerset left, that in 1821 no less than 196 horses were shipped mostly to India, for military remounts by cavalry officers. The declared value was 56,980 rix dollars, which the then currency represented, an average of about £20 per head, or a total of £4,273.

词形变化

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词源

Borrowed from obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler (modern rijksdaalder), after early modern German Reichsthaler.
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