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ducats

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What does ducats mean?

noun

  1. plural of ducat

proper noun

  1. plural of Ducat

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Nay, the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in militiamen instead of louis d’ors and ducats.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
What if my house be troubled with a rat, And I be pleas’d to give ten thousand ducats To have it ban’d?
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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He said to his opponent, "I never miss. I bet you a hundred ducats that I break your right or left arm, just as you please."
Andrew SteinmetzThe Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)Project Gutenberg ebook #466
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 SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
There is Kant’s citation, that if anybody happened to send his doctor nine ducats the latter would have to believe that the messenger had stolen the tenth.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320