ducatoon

[ duhk-uh-toon, duhk-uh-toon ]

noun

1. a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ducatoon¹

1605–15; < French ducaton, diminutive of ducat ducat

Example Sentences

A common punishment costs the master a rix-dollar, and a severe one a ducatoon, about six shillings and eight-pence.

From Project Gutenberg

A milled ducatoon is worth eighty stivers; but an unmilled ducatoon is worth no more than seventy-two.

From Project Gutenberg