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zequin

zequin is the alternative spelling of zecchin.

Meaning of zecchin

Noun

zecchin (plural zecchins)

  1. (historical) Any of various gold coins produced in Italy or Turkey; a sequin.
    • […] the noble armour, that was worth so many zecchins to Joseph Pareira, the armourer of Milan, besides seventy in the hundred of profits, he cares for it as little as if he had found it in the highways!”1820, Walter Scott, chapter 9, in Ivanhoe

Forms of zequin

pluralzequins

Questions about zequin

What is zequin the alternative spelling of?
Zequin is the alternative spelling of zecchin.

Words near zequin in the dictionary

  1. zeptoseconds
  2. Zepu
  3. zequals
  4. zequeen
  5. zequeens
  6. zequin
  7. zequins
  8. Zer
  9. Zerah
  10. Zerahiah
  11. Zeralda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zequin (page history and authors); zecchin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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