Sequins are small, shiny discs that are sewn on clothes to decorate them. The frocks were covered in sequins, thousands of them. a small shiny flat piece of metal, sewn onto clothes for decoration sequinned (zecchino, from zecca , from sikka )
It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey