1) Admission requirement 2) Admission ticket 3) Admission ticket colloquially 4) Bit of old European money 5) Bit of old gold 6) Box-office buy 7) Coin 8) Coin first used in 1284 9) Coin for Antonio 10) Coin for Portia 11) Coin for Shylock 12) Coin of old 13) Coin of old Venice 14) Coin stolen by Jessica
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1) Sequin
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The ducat t was a gold or silver coin used as a trade coin in Europe from the later medieval centuries until as late as the 20th century. Many types of ducats had various metallic content and purchasing power throughout that period. The gold ducat of Venice gained wide international acceptance, like the medieval Byzantine hyperpyron and the Floren...
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• (n.) A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.
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Any of various former European gold coins which used the ducat standard set in the 13thC. A gold ducat consistently weighs 3.5 g of. 986 fine gold.
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(from the article `coin`) ...of the Baptist. Regular weight (about 3.50 grams, 54 grains) and fineness won the fiorino universal fame and wide imitation; double florins were ... Meanwhile, the new gold Venetian ducat spread in the East. It was used until the 18th century, and its standard (3.56 grams) was adopted for Islamic ... [2 r...
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(Pronounced DUCK - et) Medieval gold coin; also any of a number of modern issues of the Dutch Mint. Modern slang has spread its use to mean 'ticket.'
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Any of various former European gold coins which used the ducat standard set in the 13thC. A gold ducat consistently weighs 3.5 g of. 986 fine gold.
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Duc'at noun [ French
ducat , Italian
ducato , Late Latin
ducatus , from
dux leader or commander. See
Duke .] A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke. » The gold ducat is generally of th...
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The ducat was a coin, usually of gold, used at various times in different European countries. The first ducat was struck in silver by Roger II of Sicily in 1140. In 1252 Florence issued a gold ducat and in 1283 Venice also struck gold ducats (later known as sequins). The gold ducats passed in circulation into Hungary early in the 14h century, and t...
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n] - formerly a gold coin of various European countries
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ducat 1. An old European gold or silver coin formerly used in some European countries, e.g., Italy and the Netherlands. 2. A ticket for a performance; probably from ducats, money or cash; via Old French ultimately from medieval Latin, ducatus, “duchy”; so called because the word appeared on early coins.
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noun formerly a gold coin of various European countries
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Since 1284 gold coin in Venice, remained unchanged until 1794. The word derives from the Venetian doge, originally from Latin dux (leader). Later, other countries minted ducats as well. Ducats were first struck in Austria in the early sixteenth century. Restrikes of original ducats and the four-ducat with the portrait of Emperor Francis Joseph I ar...
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any of various gold coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe, esp. that first issued in Venice in 1284. Cf. sequin (def. 2). · any of various silver coins formerly issued in various parts of Europe. · a ticket to a public performance. · money; cash.
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