ducatoon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ducatoon
1605–15; < French ducaton, diminutive of ducat ducat
Example Sentences
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A milled ducatoon is worth eighty stivers; but an unmilled ducatoon is worth no more than seventy-two.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert
A common punishment costs the master a rix-dollar, and a severe one a ducatoon, about six shillings and eight-pence.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert
Grimaud himself, understand; and with the ten parts of Grimaud, which are not worth a ducatoon, I regained the diamond.
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
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