crusado

noun

1. (archaic)A crusader.

   “So you agree with me, and don't think that the crusado from Russia will recover the Holy Land!”

   “No crusado ever returned with more humility.”

2. (archaic)A crusade.

   “I do not approve of this wholesale going to work, this impertinent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species.”

3. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of cruzado (old monetary unit).

   “Secondly, There was the account of four years more, while they kept the effects in their hands, before the government claimed the administration, as being the effects of a person not to be found, which they called civil death; and the balance of this, the value of the plantation increasing, amounted to nineteen thousand four hundred and forty-six crusadoes, being about three thousand two hundred and forty moidores.”

   “The King's fifth of the mines, yields annually thirteen millions of crusadoes or half dollars.”

   “When first appointed to the command in the Moluccas, Galvano carried with him a private fortune of 10,000 crusadoes, all of which he expended in the public service.”