Ducats
[dʌkət]
Examples
- Justice--the Law--my ducats, and my daughter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The wits nicknamed him _Il Milione_, because he was always talking of millions of people and millions of ducats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The receipts which are given for deposits of gold ducats fall to it yet more frequently, because a higher warehouse rent, or one half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He bought off the German troops at last by the payment of four hundred thousand ducats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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