zecchino
Americannoun
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zecchini
plural
noun
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Origin of zecchino
1610–20; < Italian. See sequin
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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
I'll wager a zecchino they have come from Naples.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
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
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
There was nothing very remarkable about his dress, and, with a little purse containing a few zecchini in his pocket, he slipped in at the gate just as night was falling.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
A hundred on his soles, and a hundred zecchini from his purse!
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
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
There are three thousand zecchini for you to receive.
From Andrea Delfin by Michael Pullen
I remember a Venetian who once said, coming to a feast, “I would not take five gold zecchini for this thirst which I now have.”
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland
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