kreutzer

[ kroit-ser ]

/ ˈkrɔɪt sər /

any of various former minor coins issued by German states.

a former copper coin of Austria, the 100th part of a florin.

Origin of kreutzer

1540–50; < German Kreuzer, equivalent to Kreuz cross (orig. the device on the coin) + -er -er¹

Kreutzer

[ kroit-ser; French krœ-tser ]

/ ˈkrɔɪt sər; French krœˈtsɛr /

Ro·dolphe

[raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/,1766–1831, French violinist.

Czipra filled her hand and began to search among the mass for the smallest copper, a kreutzer,76 as the correct alms for a beggar.

Debts of Honor |Maurus Jkai
But he who wrote Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata' knew well why he found himself in a certain condition.

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories |Leo Tolstoi
I, too, was weighed down by that same doubt when writing "The Kreutzer Sonata."

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories |Leo Tolstoi
Every woman who kept company with a man at night must pay the keeper a kreutzer, the remainder of the fee being her own property.

The History of Prostitution |William W. Sanger

Ah, how Kreutzer played the flute, that day, for his beloved Anna!

The Old Flute-Player |Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

kreutzer

/ (ˈkrɔɪtsə) /

any of various former copper and silver coins of Germany or Austria

C16: from German Kreuzer, from Kreuz cross, from Latin crux; referring to the cross originally stamped upon such coins