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zecchino

[ zuh-kee-noh; Italian tsek-kee-naw ]

noun

, plural zec·chi·ni [z, uh, -, kee, -nee, tsek-, kee, -nee].


zecchino

/ zɛˈkiːnəʊ /

noun

  1. another word for sequin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of zecchino1

1610–20; < Italian. See sequin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of zecchino1

C18: from Italian; see sequin
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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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