Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
baiocco .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.
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- noun archaic A small
copper coin once used in theRoman states.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His only resource is to give money to the beggars of Rome, who for one 'bajocco' will pray for him.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 02: a Cleric in Naples Giacomo Casanova 1761
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His only resource is to give money to the beggars of Rome, who for one 'bajocco' will pray for him.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Besides these, there is a copper coin at Rome, called bajocco and mezzo bajocco.
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Upon one of the lowest flights of stairs sat an old blind beggar, and rattled with his little leaden box that people might drop a _bajocco_ therein.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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I gave him a bajocco for which he seemed very grateful.
Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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Not that I like them so much, or care a bajocco for Vernon,
Amours De Voyage Anonymous 1858
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Not that I like them much or care a bajocco for Vernon,
Amours De Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough 1840
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I gave him a _bajocco_ for which he seemed very grateful.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831
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I made a present of the work to a bookseller, and in three or four days he sold out the whole edition at a bajocco apiece.
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I made a present of the work to a bookseller, and in three or four days he sold out the whole edition at a bajocco apiece.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
fbharjo commented on the word bajocco
in-cent-half
April 6, 2011