Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gold coin formerly used in Spain and Spanish America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gold coin of Spain and the Spanish-American states, originally of double the value of the pistole, the double pistole being equivalent from 1730 to 1772 to $8.24, from 1772 to 1786 to $8.08, and from 1786 to 1848 to $7.87.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See
doblon in Sup.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A former
Spanish gold coin , also used in itsAmerican colonies .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a former Spanish gold coin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Brasher coin was called a doubloon because it is approximately the weight of a Spanish gold doubloon, a common coin in colonial America.
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He confided with pride: “A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He confided with pride: “A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He confided with pride: “A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He confided with pride: “A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.
George Washington Thayer, William R 1922
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[24] A doubloon is a coin used in Spanish America in Carter's time worth 16 pieces of eight.
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[41.5] A doubloon was a coin used in Spanish America in Carter's time worth 16 pieces of eight.
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In English (following Spanish) a doubloon was a coin worth two pesetas -- the pirates '` piece of eight,' because the peseta was equivalent to four reals.
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A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit of my going out, and sometimes six pistoles. "
yarb commented on the word doubloon
"I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 99
July 29, 2008