sequin

«sequin» in Mova's school dictionary: a small, flat, shiny disc sewn onto clothes to sparkle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (sequin, sequins)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sequin is a small, flat, shiny disc sewn onto clothes to sparkle. tree →

2) (old use) A sequin is a gold coin, as in fairy tales about treasure. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, treasure of gold coins, often hidden in the ground; in clothes, a shiny spot that sparkles

examples

• Our father left us each a thousand sequins. tree →
• She placed a purse full of sequins in the old woman's hand. tree →
• I dug up the three thousand sequins I had buried. tree →

note

each sequin counts as one coin or one disc, so a count of sequins is an ordinary count of single pieces

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sequin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.