sequin

English

gold sequins on a shoe (2)

Etymology

Borrowed from French sequin, from Italian zecchino, from zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of zecchin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.kwɪn/

Noun

sequin (plural sequins)

1. (historical) Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pices stamped with what looked like wisps of string or its of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck - nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...

2. A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing.

   Synonym: paillette

Translations

Italian/Turkish coin

• Finnish: sekiini
• German: Zechine f
• Italian: zecchino (it) m
• Russian: цехи́н (ru) m (cexín)
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• Serbo-Croatian: cekin (sh)
• Slovene: cekin
• Spanish: cequí (es) m, sequí m
• Swedish: sekin (sv), dukat (sv)

sparkling spangle used for decoration of ornate clothing:

• Bulgarian: пайети (pajeti)
• Czech: pajetka f, bůstka f, cetka f
• Finnish: paljetti (fi)
• French: paillettes (fr) f pl
• German: Paillette f
• Hungarian: flitter (hu)
• Italian: pailette f, lustrino (it) m
• Malay: labuci
• Maori: kora
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paljett m, paljetter pl

  Nynorsk: paljett m, paljettar pl

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• Polish: cekin (pl) m
• Portuguese: lantejoula f
• Russian: блёстка (ru) f (bljóstka)
• Serbo-Croatian: šljokica (sh), pajet
• Spanish: lentejuela (es) f
• Swedish: paljett (sv)

Further reading

• sequin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation

Anagrams

• quines, sinque

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French

Etymology

From Italian zecchino, from zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.kɛ̃/

Noun

sequin m (plural sequins)

1. (money) zecchin, sequin
2. sequin

   Synonym: paillette

Further reading

• “sequin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• enquis, équins, niques, niqués