conto

/ˈkɑntoʊ/
noun
  1. A former unit of money in Portugal and Brazil, equal to one thousand escudos or one thousand réis.
    • In old Brazil, a conto was worth a thousand réis.
    • My grandfather used to talk about buying land for a few contos.
    • The price of the house was fifty contos in the 1920s.
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