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Definition of scudo in English: scudonounPlural scudi ˈskuːdəʊˈsko͞odō historical A coin, typically made of silver, formerly used in various Italian states. Example sentencesExamples - In Venice that year, some canvas cost only a fourth of a scudo a meter.
- That was the equivalent of half the total annual papal income of 2,500,000 scudi.
- By different standards, however, even those early sums of 1 1/2 and 8 scudi were by no means meager.
- During the 1630s, he spent 57 percent of his income on running his unusually complex household and extended-family business, for which expenses amounted to about 840 scudi a year.
- The Florentine painter Giovan Battista Vanni was paid 200 scudi for his copy of the Bacchanal of the Andrians.
- According to the contract each sculptor was to be paid 150 scudi per statue.
- For the decade of 1616 to 1625, which he spent in Rome, Fano, and Bologna, documented payments for oil paintings total about 3,000 scudi.
Origin Italian, from Latin scutum 'shield'. Definition of scudo in US English: scudonounˈsko͞odō historical A coin, typically made of silver, formerly used in various Italian states. Example sentencesExamples - In Venice that year, some canvas cost only a fourth of a scudo a meter.
- For the decade of 1616 to 1625, which he spent in Rome, Fano, and Bologna, documented payments for oil paintings total about 3,000 scudi.
- By different standards, however, even those early sums of 1 1/2 and 8 scudi were by no means meager.
- The Florentine painter Giovan Battista Vanni was paid 200 scudi for his copy of the Bacchanal of the Andrians.
- That was the equivalent of half the total annual papal income of 2,500,000 scudi.
- According to the contract each sculptor was to be paid 150 scudi per statue.
- During the 1630s, he spent 57 percent of his income on running his unusually complex household and extended-family business, for which expenses amounted to about 840 scudi a year.
Origin Italian, from Latin scutum ‘shield’. |