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Definition of Ducats
1. ducat [n] - See also: ducat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ducats
Literary usage of Ducats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"There follows a statement relating to the cost of another twelve galleys at 600
ducats a month for four months (28800 ducats, for which the text erroneously ..."
2. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Beethoven dictated the letter, but signed it himself and endorsed the draft: "To
Prince Galitzin, concerning 125 ducats, March 21, 1827. ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"was guilty of putting the said three ducats into tbe prosecutor's pocket, by
reason it was sworn to that effect ; and euch was the verdict intended to be ..."
4. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"Absolution for a priest who keeps a concubine, twenty-one tournois, five ducats,
six carlins. The absolution of a layman for all sorts of sins of the flesh, ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"That the deponent, on the evidence given to him on the said trial, «as of opinion,
That the defendant did put three ducats into the prosecutor's pocket ..."
6. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1902)
"... from the Cardinals 6851 ducats; 1884 ducats, 16 solidi, and 8 denare; 6686
ducats and 6 solidi; 6666 ducats; 3587 ducats and 10 solidi; 1884 ducats, ..."
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