noun
- plural of cruzeiro, the former monetary unit of Brazil
Usage: historical
Examples
- The old price tags still showed amounts in cruzeiros.
- Before the real, Brazilians used cruzeiros as their currency.
- My grandmother kept some cruzeiros as souvenirs.
- The museum displayed banknotes worth millions of cruzeiros.
- Inflation made cruzeiros nearly worthless by the 1990s.