doubloon
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- noun
- /dəˈbluːn/
- Archaic
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doblón
- While exploring the old shipwreck, they discovered a gold doubloon hidden in a wooden chest.
- gold doubloons
- Spanish doubloons
- chest of doubloons
Examples
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Duke gave his grandfather the very doubloon that his own father gave to him.
Blog text (12) -
Duke gives Roy the gold doubloon that Duke received from his own father.
Blog text (24) -
Six hundred thousand Spanish doubloons should prove a more effective advocate with Louis than I.
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I believe doubloons were like Spanish coins during the age of exploration.
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It was a gold doubloon minted in Spain, 1867.
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The Spaniards came up the Calusa Hatchee to buy his longhorns at Cattle Dock Point, paying Old Jake in gold doubloons, which he left about in sacks, old wool socks, and cigar boxes.
Fiction book (1990) -
A collector proudly displayed his rare Spanish doubloon from the 17th century in his museum.
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In the treasure map, the legend indicated that a gold doubloon marked the location of the buried loot.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Doubloon comes from the Spanish doblón, from doble meaning 'double', and is the same idea as the English word double. It was a gold coin worth about 'double' a smaller coin, so the name helps you remember it as a valuable 'double' coin.