pardo

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pardo - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pardo \Par"do\, n. [Pg. pardao, fr. Skr. prat[=a]pa splendor,
     majesty.]
     A money of account once used in in Goa, India, equivalent to
     about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts. (in 1913).
     [1913 Webster]