Crossword-Solution: BEZANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bezant | n. | A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. |
| Bezant | n. | A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant. |
| Bezant | n. | A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “BEZANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Architectural disk | 1 answer |
| BESANT | 1 answer |
| gold roundel | 1 answer |
| English gold coin | 8 answers |
| silver coin | 8 answers |
| Byzantine coin. | 11 answers |
| gold coin | 12 answers |
| FRENCH currency | 17 answers |
| BYZANTINE ___ | 21 answers |
| English coin | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEZANT (5)
Then fore-sheet home as she lifts to the foam -- we stand on the outward tack, We are paid in the coin of the white man's trade -- the bezant is hard, ay, and black.
The race of Fatemite caliphs,--who, although in other respects as tolerant, were more distressed for money, or more unscrupulous in obtaining it, than their predecessors of the house of Abbas,--imposed a tax of a bezant for each pilgrim that entered Jerusalem.
They were plundered, and beaten with stripes, and kept in suspense for months at the gates of Jerusalem, unable to pay the golden bezant that was to facilitate their entrance.
Curious enough, Bezant, the doctor, was over here yesterday from Swainson; and as I was walking with him, arm-in-arm, we met Captain Thorn.
But if you are the monk's friend, why do you want to see him die?" She made no reply, but took from a pocket a bezant, and contrived to throw its yellow gleam in the sentinel's eyes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1967–1982).