bezant
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 6
Definition of bezant
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
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noun
- A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
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A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
“One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].”
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of bezant.
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Etymology
From Middle English besaunt, from Old French bezant, nominative bezanz, from Latin byzantius (“of Byzantium”).
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