Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The English name of the ducatone, a silver coin (also called
giustina ), formerly current in the republic of Venice, and containing nearly 398 grains of fine silver, equal to 0.965 of the United States silver dollar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A silver coin formerly used in
Holland and otherDutch -speaking territories.
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Examples
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" At least 'ducatoon" was evocative of her waddle and her squawky aggravation.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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Besides, a better word for the chaperon, throwing her elbows and swinging her dog coffin of a purse, may have been 'ducatoon.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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At this time paper was at 28 per cent discount: there is likewise a difference in the value of the ducatoon which at Batavia is 80 stivers and in Holland only 63 stivers: this occasions a loss of 21 1/4 per cent on remittance of money.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship William Bligh 1785
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A milled ducatoon is worth eighty stivers; but an unmilled ducatoon is worth no more than seventy-two.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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A common punishment costs the master a rix-dollar, and a severe one a ducatoon, about six shillings and eight-pence.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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However, after much trouble and expence, by employing some of the meanest and lowest scoundrels in the place (who, to use the phrase of the person who recommended this method to me, would, for a ducatoon, cut their master's throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes), I recovered them all but the two ewes.
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The character given of the fellows to whom the captain was obliged to have recourse, by the person who recommended their being applied to, was, that for a ducatoon they would cut their master's throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes.
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 1760
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The character given of the fellows to whom the captain was obliged to have recourse, by the person who recommended their being applied to, was, that for a ducatoon they would cut their master’s throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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The character given of the fellows to whom the captain was obliged to have recourse, by the person who recommended their being applied to, was, that for a ducatoon they would cut their master’s throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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