milreis noun. ['mɪlreɪs] Pl. same. L16.
[Portuguese, from mil thousand + REI noun + -S¹.]
Hist. A former monetary unit of Portugal and Brazil equal to 1,000 reis, replaced in Portugal by the escudo in 1911 and in Brazil by the cruzeiro in 1942.

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