| 释义 |
chequeen, chequin arch.|tʃɪˈkiːn|
Forms: 6 checkyn, chikino, (sechino), chekin, 7 chickin, -een(e, -en, chechin, cecchine, chiquiney, -ie, chicquin, checqine, chekeen, 7–8 chequin, chequeen, 8 shekin. See also sequin, zecchin.
[c gray][ad. It. zecchino (tsekˈkino[/c]), |tʃ| being the nearest Eng. sound to |ts|; f. zecca the mint at Venice.
(This is the most thoroughly English form of the word, which is now however usually written in its French form sequin, although the old pronunciation has long survived the spelling.)]
A gold coin of Italy and Turkey, worth from about 7s. to 9s. 6d. in English money; a sequin.
1583Cæsar Frederici in Hakluyt II. 343 (Y.) Chickinos which be pieces of Golde woorth seuen shillings a piece sterling. 1589T. Sanders Unfort. Voy. Tripoli in Arb. Garner II. 14 To lend him 100 chikinos. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 152 Euery man a chekin, which is seuen shillings and two pence sterling. 1601W. Parry Trav. Sir A. Sherley 30 Feeing her with two chickins. 1605B. Jonson Volpone i. iii. (1616) 457 When euery word..is a cecchine! 1608Shakes. Per. iv. ii. 28 Three or four thousand Chickeens [mod. ed. chequins]. 1611Coryat Crudities 191 Chests..full of chiquineys. 1611Chapman May Day Plays 1873 II. 340 Half a chickeene to cut's throat. 1632Brome Novella i. ii. Wks. 1873 I. 113 Here's a thousand checqines. 1653Greaves Seraglio 91 Six hundred thousand chicquins yearly. 1655Massinger Very Woman iii. i, Fifty chekeens, Sir. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 413 This Convent payeth but one Chequin. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 91 Presenting the Guardian with two Chequeens a piece. 1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 249 A body of Jews..tendered, as usual, 1000 shekins. 1794Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (ed. 2) I. 350 No objection to take your money..14000 chequins, 7000l. sterling. |