Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of ducat, ducatoon.
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Examples
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Goa, but the duckat of gold in value is 10 tangas of good money.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The time that I was there, there were two brought out of a farre Countrey, and that cost me something the sight of them, for they commaund the marchants to goe to see them, and then they must giue somewhat to the men that bring them: the brokers of the marchants giue for euery man halfe a duckat, which they call a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Bragadino gaue to euery souldier one duckat, the which could gaine or recouer any of the former woolpackes, making countermines in all places.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nutmegs, the bateman, 45 medins, and 40 medins maketh a duckat
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Euery person which resorteth to this place for traffiques sake, is bound to pay halfe a duckat, except the gentlemen Venetians, Siotes, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The currant mony of Babylon are Saies, which Say is 5 medines, as in Aleppo, and 40 medines being 8 Saies make a duckat currant, and 47 medines passe in value as the duckat of gold of Venice, and the dollars of the best sort are worth 33 medines.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The duckat of gold is woorth there 7 larines, and one danine, which is of Aleppo money 48 medines and a halfe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nutmegs, the bateman, 45 medins, and 40 medins maketh a duckat
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And for the better encouragement of the souldiers, the right honorable Bragadino gaue to euery souldier one duckat, the which could gaine or recouer any of the former woolpackes, making countermines in all places.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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There was not any want of bread nor of wine: but the wines of that countrey are so hot that being drunke without water they will kill a man: neither are they able to drinke them: when we beganne to want water, I sawe certaine Moores that were officers in the ship, that solde a small dish full for a duckat, after this I sawe one that would haue giuen a barre of Pepper, which is two quintalles and a halfe, for a litle measure of water, and he could not haue it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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