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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequin/#m1)

2) (old use) A sequin is a gold coin, as in fairy tales about treasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequin/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequin/#x1)
- She placed a purse full of sequins in the old woman's hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequin/#x2)
- I dug up the three thousand sequins I had buried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequin/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.