• Doubloon

    Origin

    From French doublon, from Spanish doblón, augmentative of doble ("double")

    Full definition of doubloon

    Noun

    doubloon

    (plural doubloons)
    1. A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies.
      • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, 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...
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