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ducatoon|dʌkəˈtuːn|
Also 7 ducaton, ducattoon, -oun, 7–8 duccat-, duckatoon.
[a. F. ducaton ‘a small duckat, or halfe duckat’ (Cotgr.), ? ad. It. ducatone (not in Florio) augm. of ducato (being a bigger coin than the gold ducat, Della Crusca): see prec. and -oon.]
A silver coin formerly current in Italian and some other European states, worth from 5 to 6 shillings sterling.
1611Coryat Crudities 285 The greatest [Venetian silver coin] is the duckatoone, which containeth eight livers, that is, sixe shillings. This piece hath in one side the effigies of the Duke of Venice and the Patriarch..and in the other the figure of St. Justina. a1659Cleveland Gen. Poems (1677) 40 What mean the Elders else, those Kirk Dragoons, Made up of Ears and Ruffs like Ducatoons? 1672Petty Pol. Anat. 385 Weighty plate pieces, together with ducatoons, making about three quarters of the money now current in Ireland. 1704Royal Proclam. 18 June in Lond. Gaz. No. 4029/1 Duccatoons of Flanders, Twenty Peny-weight and Twenty one Grains, Five Shillings and Six Pence. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Ducatoon, a silver coin, struck chiefly in Italy; particularly at Milan, Venice, Florence, Genoa, Lucca, Mantua, and Parma; though there are also Dutch and Flemish ducatoons..There is also a gold ducatoon, struck and current chiefly in Holland. 1827De Quincey Murder Wks. 1862 IV. 19 He had possessed himself of a ducatoon. |