a small round shiny disc sewn onto clothing as decoration (装饰衣服的)闪光小圆片 a dress covered in gold sequins 镶有金亮片的连衣裙
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally referring to a Venetian gold coin): from French, from Italian zecchino, from zecca ‘a mint’, from Arabic sikka ‘a die for coining’. The current sense dates from the late 19th cent.