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zecchino
[ zuh-kee-noh; Italian tsek-kee-naw ]
zecchino
/ zɛˈkiːnəʊ /
noun
- another word for sequin
Word History and Origins
Origin of zecchino1
Example Sentences
A single word appears beneath each image, a composite of elements from the artists’ work with Baldessari’s painting on top of it: “Zebra,” “Zeal,” “Zecchino.”
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.
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.
I'll wager a zecchino they have come from Naples.
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.
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