| 单词 | rial of plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrial of plate b. rial of plate = real of plate at real n.3 1(a). Cf. royal of plate at plate n. 5a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver > real de plata rial1508 rial of plate1555 real1558 royal of plate1559 royal1587 platea1593 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 193v The cyrcle of letters of a riale of plate. a1585 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) 29 521 Here the Spanyerdes have a mynte house,..where they stampp all the rialls of plate of the pillars. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxvii. 60 Every peece of tenne Ryals, which they receiue in Ryals of Plate, for there is no other Marchandize in those partes. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 135 At..Arragon, The Rial, or Ryal of Plate is 23 Dinero's (Hunt saith 13) and the Ducat is 12 Ryals. 1741 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 38 A Quantity of Jewels, and 12 Chests of Ryals of Plate. 1779 H. Lee Let. 30 Dec. in B. Franklin Papers (1995) XXXI. 300 The money came to 281 Dollr & 2 Riyal of Plate. 1816 W. Walton tr. A. Puigblanch Inquisition Unmasked II. vi. 213 (note) The seal used by Torquemada does not exceed the diameter of a rial of plate. 1865 Gazlay's Pacific Monthly Mar. 227/2 They found twelve sail of ships at anchor unguarded...Examining these vessels, they found a chest filled with rials of plate, which, together with some silks and linen, they made prize of. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. iii. 108 There was little money anywhere in Ireland;..one finds a mortgage in Galway being effected in ducats of good Spanish rials of plate. 1998 S. Mazumdar Sugar & Society in China App. 417 The silver peso, also known as ‘rial of plate’ or peso de plata, was the Spanish coin used as common currency by all traders. < as lemmas |
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