baiocco
baiocco is the alternative form of bajocco.
Meaning of bajocco
Noun
bajocco (plural bajoccos or bajocchi)
- A coin, originally copper, later silver, issued by the Papal States from the 15th century to 1865. In the 19th century the value was five hundredths of a lira.
- I have heard a brother of the story-telling trade, at Naples, preaching to a pack of good-for-nothing honest lazy fellows by the sea-shore, work himself up into such a rage and passion with some of the villains whose wicked deeds he was describing and inventing, that the audience could not resist...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
Forms of baiocco
| plural | baioccos |
|---|---|
| plural | baiocchi |
Questions about baiocco
- What is baiocco the alternative form of?
- Baiocco is the alternative form of bajocco.
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