Meaning of Doubloon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies.
   historical
2. Clipping of doubloonie.
   Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang

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Examples

“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 pieces stamped with what looked like⟳ wisps of string or bits 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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