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Bezant

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Noun

1. bezant, bezzant, byzant, solidus

a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bezant

see synonyms of bezant
noun
1. 
a medieval Byzantine gold coin
2. architecture
an ornament in the form of a flat disc
3. heraldry
a small gold circle

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Bezant

see synonyms of bezant
noun
1. 
the solidus, a gold coin issued in Byzantium
see also solidus (sense 1)
2.  Architecture and Heraldry
an ornamental flat disk or circular figure representing such a coin

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bezant

see synonyms of bezant
n.
1. See solidus.
2. Architecture A flat disk used as an ornament.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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