English Dictionary

rix-dollar

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹɪksˌdɒlə/

名詞

歴史的

(now historical) A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16ᵗʰ to the mid-19ᵗʰ centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.

日本語の意味

16世紀後半から19世紀中頃にかけて、テウトニック系ヨーロッパおよびその帝国貿易ネットワークで使用された銀貨および計算通貨としての貨幣

In the merchant's chest lay a battered rix-dollar that testified to centuries of Baltic trade.

商人の箱には、バルト海交易の何世紀にもわたる歴史を物語る、古びたテュートン諸国で用いられた銀貨（通貨単位）が入っていた。

意味（1）

(now historical) A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16ᵗʰ to the mid-19ᵗʰ centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.

At all other times they would receive the regular salary of thirty rix-dollars monthly.

意味（2）

(historical) A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.

Such had the business become before Lord Somerset left, that in 1821 no less than 196 horses were shipped mostly to India, for military remounts by cavalry officers. The declared value was 56,980 rix dollars, which the then currency represented, an average of about £20 per head, or a total of £4,273.

rix-dollars （ plural ）