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▪ I. sequin, n.|ˈsiːkwɪn|
Also 8 zequin. See also chequeen, zecchin.
[a. F. sequin, ad. It. zecchino, f. zecca the mint (= Sp. seca), ad. Arab. sikkah die for coining, whence sicca1.]
1. Hist. An Italian gold coin (originally Venetian); for its value, see quot. 1788. Also used as a name for a former Turkish coin, the sultanin.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 292 At Naples..ten quatrines make one sequin. 1677tr. Tavernier's Grand Seignior's Seraglio 14 The Scherif, otherwise called Sequin, or Sultanine. a1701Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 6 Apr. (1810) 136 For which they pay the Turks a rent of one zequin a day. 1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 464 The government of Algiers demands of France sixty thousand sequins, or twenty-seven thousand pounds sterling. 1820Shelley Let. Pr. Wks. (1888) II. 316, I bought the vases you saw for about twenty sequins less than Micale asked. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxxii, Velvet bags, one full of pearls, another of rubies, others of Venetian sequins. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. xxxiv, Moidores and sequins [etc.].
2. A small spangle used in the ornamentation of dresses, etc.
1882Daily News 3 June 3/1 Never before, probably, have dress trimmings been more artistic than they are now. Sequins are the newest. 1891Leeds Merc. 27 Apr. 4/7 The..sleeves studded thickly over with tiny glittering silver sequins. 1909‘Vernon Lee’ in Eng. Rev. Feb. 454 Slave girls with stuff of striped silver about their loins and sequins at the end of their long hair.
3. attrib. and Comb.: (sense 1) sequin gold; (sense 2) sequin-sewn, sequin-weighted adjs.; † sequin-hazard = chicken-hazard.
1837Disraeli Venetia v. viii, The gilding, although of two hundred years' duration, as bright..[etc.]: *Sequin gold, as the Venetians tell you.
1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. II. 8 If any body had a desire for a little *sequin hazard, there were such things as dice at hand.
1896Westm. Gaz. 28 May 3/1 To much manipulate or trim embroidered and *sequin sewn fabrics were to defeat their charm.
1904Ibid. 7 Jan. 3/2 An evening frock of black chiffon with wide insertion of *sequin-weighted lace.
▪ II. sequin, v.|ˈsiːkwɪn|
[f. sequin n.]
trans. To ornament with sequins. Hence ˈsequined ppl. a. Also fig.
1894Daily News 5 June 6/4 Sequinned net. Ibid. 22 June 6/7 The gold bonnet was sequinned in pink and green. 1905Mrs. C. N. Williamson Castle of Shadows v. 110 A tall woman in sequined black tulle. 1918E. Sitwell Clown's Houses 8 Beside the sea, metallic-bright And sequined with the noisy light. 1969‘E. Lathen’ When in Greece xiii. 140 The sea spread a sequined carpet..below. |