Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small Venetian coin. See gazzetta.
  • A simplified spelling of gazette.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete An old Venetian coin.

Etymologies

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Italian gazeta, gazzetta, probably diminutive of Latin gaza royal treasure.

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Examples

  • History records that the harvest festival was celebrated at state-level in 1960 after the British North Borneo government gazet-ted it as a folk festival and also a public holiday.

    nst online 2009

  • Dan zit ik 4 dagen in Kopenhagen, kom ik terug, lees mijn gazet en ik zie Camps en Vanderstraeten staan.

    LienWeb 2009

  • Marc Bijl, The party is over, 2003 (t-error [reedycja pracy z roku 2001 wykonanej po ataku na wtc .. z tą r�żnicą że wtedy litery były wycięte z aktualnych gazet .. a dziś - z gładkiego papieru] (

    trendbeheer 2010

  • Tunu bnt to ftart] and gazet but to fight The weaiy wafte, that lengthen'd as he ran, 135

    The pleasures of memory 1793

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