Milreis

Word MILREIS
Character 7
Hyphenation mil reis
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Milreis"

What do we mean by milreis?

A former currency of Portugal.

A former currency of Brazil.

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The word "milreis" in example sentences

The master makes about 1,600 milreis, or about £160, a month by them; so some people evidently find them good. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I went to visit them, and bought a packet for half a milreis, or thirteenpence (then). ❋ Unknown (2006)

The land belongs to a Brazilian, who get three or four milreis a day out of it ❋ Unknown (2006)

I have an appartement furnished; four rooms to myself and the use of three others, and the kitchen, the servant of the house, and everything but food, for 150 milreis, or £15 a month. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The duties are noted in Portuguese money, “milreis”, each of which is about three shillings in value. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Holland, the quarter-ruble of Russia, the 200-reis piece of Portugal, the 5-piastre piece of Turkey, the half-milreis of Brazil and the half-rupee of India, all interchangeable with the English shilling, and all of them about the value of the quarter-dollar of North and ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)

Paul and Bob both laughed, and harder yet as the bright little animal shot a paw into Paul's pocket and adroitly drew out a Brazilian gold coin called a milreis, worth about fifty-four cents in American money. ❋ Chelsea Curtis Fraser (N/A)

"You give five milreis, me give monk," said the old mulatto. ❋ Chelsea Curtis Fraser (N/A)

Silver: 2 milreis, $1.09; 1 milreis, 55 cents; 1/2 milreis, 27 cents. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)

Brazil -- Gold coins: 20 milrei piece, $10.91; 10 milreis, $5.45. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)

Five milreis (one dollar and fifty cents) was cheap for a chicken, and eggs at five hundred reis (fifteen cents) apiece were a rarity. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Sugar was bought at the rate of one to two milreis a Kilo—in a country where sugar-cane grows luxuriantly. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Peers, naturalized aliens, persons not qualified to vote, and certain employees of the state were ineligible for election, and deputies were required to possess an income of not less than 400 milreis ($425) annually, or to be graduates of a professional, secondary, or higher school. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)

Brazil coffee cable quotations are the market prices, in Rio or Santos, of ten kilograms of coffee, the price being stated in milreis, the monetary unit of Brazil money. ❋ Unknown (1909)

A premium of as much as five milreis a bag has been paid by speculators in order to obtain immediate transport. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Our dollar sign is used to denote milreis, placing it after the whole number, and before the fractional part expressed in one-thousandths. ❋ Unknown (1909)

That is to say, the purchasing power of a milreis in Brazil will not necessarily vary exactly as the rate of exchange on London. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The par value of the milreis (1000 reis) is 54.6 cents (gold) of ❋ Unknown (1909)

The money value is not so simple, since Brazilian paper currency is unstable; and the milreis quotation means nothing unless it is considered in connection with the rate of exchange for the same day, i.e., the current gold value of the milreis. ❋ Unknown (1909)

It may make a great difference to the Brazilian planter or exporter whether an increased gold value of his coffee arises through a higher milreis bid or an appreciated exchange, simply on account of local currency considerations. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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