ducat
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- noun
- /ˈdjuːkət/
- Archaic
:
ducado
- During the Renaissance, a skilled craftsman could earn many ducats for his work.
- gold ducats
I wonder what the cost was of that 'cause you got to shell out them ducats.
- I wonder what the cost was of that 'cause you got to shell out them ducats.
Examples
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Now, yours truly just happens to have a few advance ducats available...
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Look at the Folio, where this Shylock cries out when his daughter Jessica runs away to marry Lorenzo. This Shylock cries out for both his daughter and his ducats, which are gold coins from Venice, as if they were the same to him.
Fiction book (1999) -
Is it the ducat or the cross we bear upon our banner?
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I saved him a pair of ducats for the fight tomorrow.
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And if you finish by tomorrow night... ...he will pay you another hundred ducats.
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"My dear sir, I have no designs on either your ducats or your daughter."
Fiction book (1993) -
Three thousand ducats, 'tis a good round sum.
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First of all, give Miltitz 600 ducats as an expression of our gratitude.
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Lucrezia left 200 ducats to her family's church of S. Francesco in Mirandola.
Academic text (1999) -
Gold and silver poured from the sack, gleaming in the strengthening daylight: golden guineas, ducats, and silver rupiahs.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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A Spanish gold coin used from the 1500s to the 1800s
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A gold coin used in the Byzantine Empire and in medieval Europe
A gold coin from the Byzantine Empire that people used widely in the Middle Ages
A gold coin from the Byzantine Empire used in medieval Europe
A gold coin from the Byzantine Empire used in Europe in the Middle Ages
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ducat comes from the Italian ducato, meaning 'of the duke', and from Latin dux meaning 'leader', which is the same root as the English word duke. That's why a ducat was originally the duke's gold coin in the Middle Ages, and the name now means a valuable gold coin.