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bajocchi

bajocchi is the plural of bajocco.

Meaning of bajocco

Noun

bajocco (plural bajoccos or bajocchi)

  1. (archaic, historical) 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

Questions about bajocchi

What is bajocchi the plural of?
Bajocchi is the plural of bajocco.

Words near bajocchi in the dictionary

  1. Bajo de Masinloc
  2. bajo quinto
  3. bajo quintos
  4. bajo sexto
  5. bajo sextos
  6. bajocchi
  7. bajocco
  8. bajoccos
  9. Bajocian
  10. bajonado
  11. bajoo

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