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  • noun Plural form of zequin.

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Examples

  • The Turkman ladies dress in the common style of Syrian women; their bonnet is adorned with strings of Venetian zequins, or other gold pieces.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • If her family is rich the girl is fitted out with clothes, and a string of zequins or of silver coin, to tie round her head; after which she is delivered to her husband.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • If her family is rich the girl is fitted out with clothes, and a string of zequins or of silver coin, to tie round her head; after which she is delivered to her husband.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • The Turkman ladies dress in the common style of Syrian women; their bonnet is adorned with strings of Venetian zequins, or other gold pieces.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • The Turkman ladies dress in the common style of Syrian women; their bonnet is adorned with strings of Venetian zequins, or other gold pieces.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

  • If her family is rich the girl is fitted out with clothes, and a string of zequins or of silver coin, to tie round her head; after which she is delivered to her husband.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

  • The prisoners engaged Mohammed, Ibrahim’s beloved son, to intercede in their favour; they paid him for that service one thousand zequins in advance, and promised as much more: and he effectually extorted from his father a promise not to kill any of them.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

  • The prisoners en­gaged Mohammed, Ibrahim’s beloved son, to intercede in their favour; they paid him for that service one thousand zequins in advance, and promised as much more: and he effectually extorted from his father a promise not to kill any of them.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • The prisoners en­gaged Mohammed, Ibrahim’s beloved son, to intercede in their favour; they paid him for that service one thousand zequins in advance, and promised as much more: and he effectually extorted from his father a promise not to kill any of them.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

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