daric
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of daric
1560–70; < Greek Dāreikós (statḗr) (Persian stater) of Darius ( def. )
Example Sentences
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For the dinar, daric or miskßl see The Nights, vol i.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
It contained more grains of gold than the daric.
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Yes," Waynflete explained, "it is a Persian daric.
From Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Matthews, Brander
Hence the gold daric was changed for ten silver staters or twenty silver drachmas.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max
The daric is equal to about a guinea or a louis d'or of our time, as the Chevalier de Jaucourt very well observes, and not ten francs, as Rollin says.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
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