rix-dol|lar

rix-dol|lar: rix-dol|lar «RIHKS _DOL uhr», noun.

any one of various silver coins, as of the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany, now mostly out of use, which were worth about a dollar.

╂[< earlier Dutch rijcksdaler (in Dutch, rijksdaalder), (literally) imperial dollar. Compare etym. under rigsdaler. (Cf. ↑rigsdaler)]

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Rix-dollar — Rix dol lar, n. [Sw. riksdaler, or Dan. rigsdaler, or D. rijksdaalder, or G. reichsthaler, literally, dollar of the empire or realm, fr. words akin to E. rich, and dollar. See {Rich}, {Dollar}.] A name given to several different silver coins of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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