English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores andsequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pices stamped with what looked like wisps of string or its of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck - nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...
(fashion) A sparklingspangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing.
1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapterCVII, inOf Human Bondage:
His ideas of music-hall costumes had never gone beyond short skirts, a swirl of lace, and glitteringsequins; but Miss Antonia had expressed herself on that subject in no uncertain terms.
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Sequin in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)