A former monetary unit of Portugal and Brazil, or a Portuguese coin bearing a cross.
From Portuguese 'cruzado' meaning 'crossed,' from 'cruz' (cross), because the coin featured a cross design. The word traveled from Portugal to Brazil via colonial trade routes.
The cruzado literally means 'crossed' because it was stamped with a cross—Portuguese merchants spreading across the Atlantic thought a cross symbol on money would bring good fortune to trade.
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