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chequeen
chequeen
English
Noun
chequeen (plural chequeens)
- (historical) A gold coin formerly used in Italy and Turkey; a sequin.
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 40:
- he came to the Road of Antibo in Peamon, where he set Smith on shore with five hundred chicqueenes, and a little box God sent him worth neere as much more.
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 40: