Definition of "zecchin" []

• Any of various gold coins produced in Italy or Turkey; a sequin. (noun)

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• "The full purse was drained to its last 'zecchin' only too soon, and Heinz, laughing, turned it inside out before the eyes of his comrades."
• "“They would swear the mother that bore them a sorceress for a zecchin,” said the Preceptor."
• "Here the Jew paused again, and looked at the last zecchin, intending, doubtless, to bestow it upon Gurth."