maravedi

[ mar-uh-vey-dee ]

/ ˌmær əˈveɪ di /

a former gold coin issued by the Moors in Spain.

a former minor copper coin of Spain, discontinued in 1848.

Origin of maravedi

1530–40; < Spanish maravedí, from Arabic Murābitīn the Almoravids; see marabout

Duc de Soria, your predecessor would neither cost you a regret nor rob you of a maravedi.

Letters of Two Brides |Honore de Balzac
A maravedi was then a little less than six cents of our currency.

The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals |Edward Everett Hale
I have nothing to give you, and if I had a whole world I would not give a maravedi's worth to you.

The Firebrand |S. R. Crockett
The maravedi is a small copper coin, of the value of three mills in American money.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 |Charles H. Sylvester

I would not have given ten maravedi for my head when those children of the devil were pushing us against the wall.

The White Company |Arthur Conan Doyle

maravedi

/ (ˌmærəˈveɪdɪ) /

any of various Spanish coins of copper or gold

C15: from Spanish, from Arabic Murābitīn (plural of murābit marabout), the Moorish dynasty in Córdoba, 1087–1147