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Related topics: Currenciesduc·at /ˈdʌkət/ noun [countable] PECa gold coin that was used in several European countries in the past 达克特〔旧时欧洲一些国家通用的金币〕Examples from the Corpusducat• So Guardasoni asked his old friend Mozart, who accepted, for a fee of 250 ducats.• Carradine dropped a few coins - ducats, I think - into the puddle and waved the woman away.• She takes away everything that means anything to him - his jewels, his ducats, the family religion and herself.• Adam had run knee-deep in silver ducats and jewelled goblets full of pearls!• The florin and the ducat were seemingly equivalent coins, the former more used in Tuscany and the latter in Venice.Origin ducat (1300-1400) Old French Old Italian ducato “coin with a picture of the doge (= highest government official) on it”, from duca “doge”duc·at nounChineseSyllable used Corpus in that several gold a coin was |