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- noun Plural form of
bezant .
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Examples
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The entire body of problems is presented in exhausting rhetorical algebra, as Holmes might explain an arithmetic puzzler to Watson: "You put 1/4 1/3 in order, and you subtract the 1 which is over the 3 from the 3 itself; there remains 2 that you multiply by the 4; there will be 8 bezants, and the first man has this many."
Counting On Progress Alan Hirshfeld 2011
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Had a nice evening at the textile guild, learning how to make bezants.
Archive 2007-06-01 cavalaxis 2007
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In addition, they sold his sword belt and scabbard for sixty bezants.
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Had a nice evening at the textile guild, learning how to make bezants.
Ha ha, it is to laughth cavalaxis 2007
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They buried along with their comrades cloaks, gold bezants, bows, arrows, and many other goods which we cannot name.
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The besieged now offered to surrender, upon conditions of safety to the inhabitants; while all the public treasure, military machines, and arms were delivered to the victors, together with the further ransom of one hundred thousand bezants.
The Talisman 2008
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To add to the coffer of gold bezants, he had found a smaller one of personal effects: turban jewels, rings, brooches and buckles.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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When he threw back the lid, gold bezants shimmered at him, layer upon layer like the scales of a carp.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Baldwin will hang every knight by the heels and shake him until the bezants fall out of his braies. '
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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'They're to be given houses in Acre, and if they help capture Tyre and Ascalon, they're to receive a third of the cities, and they're to be paid a yearly sum of three hundred Saracen bezants from revenues at Acre … tcha!'
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
tim_retep commented on the word bezants
A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout medieval Europe
August 8, 2009