zecchino
Americannoun
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zecchini
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of zecchino
1610–20; < Italian. See sequin
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I'll wager a zecchino they have come from Naples.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
Florentine gigliati Venetian zecchino All other gold coins to be taken as bullion at a value of 280 fl. for the Cologne mark of fine gold.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Between 1280 and 1284 Venice also struck 629 a gold coin, known first as the ducat, afterwards as the zecchino or sequin, the ducat becoming merely a money of account.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
I value it not a zecchino; and wert thou to depose me to-morrow, I should be the master of ye in another month, did it please me to command a people so capricious.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
There are three thousand zecchini for you to receive.
From Andrea Delfin by Michael Pullen
Schnuri, the king's jester, asked him jeeringly whether all his zecchini were tested on the stone by which the bit of Prince Abdallah's dun horse was proved.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
The taxes are heavy, and their Excellencies the tax-gatherers have less patience than the poor gondoliers bring of zecchini to the purse of the Nicolotti.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
Turning quickly round and seeing her, he put his hand in his purse and brought it out full of zecchini, which he was about to throw to her.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
He had hoped this would bring him in one hundred zecchini.
From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni
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