英语词汇sequin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sequin
词源	sequin. The Italian gold coin called the sequin (based on a Turkish gold coin called a sequin, from the Arabic sikkah, “coin”) had been known in England since at least the early 17th century. Some authorities say that in the late 1870s the word was transferred to the bright spangles on clothes, but others claim that sequin in the latter sense has nothing to do with gold coins and derives from “shining artificial flowers invented by a chemist named Sequin in 1802.”
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