Plural of crusado; multiple Portuguese coins with a cross symbol, used in historical trade.
Portuguese plural of crusado (cruzado), using the Portuguese masculine plural -os ending. The term entered English via trade and colonial commerce.
Historians love finding crusados in old shipwrecks because they're like time capsules of exactly when and where Portuguese ships were traveling—the coins literally mark the trade routes of the Age of Exploration.
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