doubloon

English - Turkish

Definition of doubloon in English Turkish dictionary: {i} İspanyol altını; altın para; eski bir ispanyol altın parası; (isim) İspanyol altını; ıspanyol altını

English - English

Definition of doubloon in English English dictionary: A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies
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.; {v} a Spanish gold coin of two pistoles; A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five; See Doblon in Sup; {i} gold coin (used in Spain and Spanish America); a gold coin used in the past in Spain and Spanish America (doblón, from duplus ; DOUBLE); a former Spanish gold coin
doubloons: plural of doubloon

doubloon

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dou·bloon

[ "d&-'blün ] (noun.) 1622. Spanish doblón, augmentative of dobla, an old Spanish coin, from Latin dupla, feminine of duplus double; more at DOUBLE.

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