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- noun Plural form of
doubloon .
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Examples
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By hunting through his things, I found a written paper in the drawer of his table, with fifty pieces of Spanish gold of the kind they call doubloons, worth about five thousand francs; and in a little sealed box ten thousand francs worth of diamonds.
La Grand Breteche 2007
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By hunting through his things, I found a written paper in the drawer of his table, with fifty pieces of Spanish gold of the kind they call doubloons, worth about five thousand francs; and in a little sealed box ten thousand francs worth of diamonds.
La Grand Breteche 2007
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No one knew his name; and what made him more mysterious was that, although he spoke English, he paid for everything in Spanish doubloons half a century old!
Boycotted And Other Stories Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Mardi Gras coins, better known as doubloons, in the colors of purple, green, and gold lend to the party atmosphere and fun when splattered round the punch bowl, cake table, and the usual food dishes.
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I always thought they should be called "doubloons" instead of "toonies," but I guess that's too complicated.
Rhyming x00c5;ka 2007
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It seems that an old bookworm who has a book and curio shop in Baltimore discovered between the leaves of a very old Spanish manuscript a letter written in 1550 detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with a vast treasure of "doubloons" and "pieces of eight," I suppose, for they certainly sound weird and piraty.
Tarzan of the Apes 1914
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Baltimore discovered between the leaves of a very old Spanish manuscript a letter written in 1550 detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with a vast treasure of "doubloons" and "pieces of eight," I suppose, for they certainly sound weird and piraty.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Public monte and faro leave them a few "doubloons" yet.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874
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It is done in the spirit of fun like the doubloons of Mardi Gras, the silver coins minted every year for the various krewes to be thrown from their floats during parades.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Now if you excuse us, we have a chest of Spanish doubloons that we need to bury somewhere.
HUFFPOST HILL - Market Has A Cry Eliot Nelson 2011
oroboros commented on the word doubloons
80% of people under the age of 25 working in advertising agencies in London don't know what these are.
July 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word doubloons
That sounds like the results of a survey, oroboros. Is it?
July 30, 2007
oroboros commented on the word doubloons
Don't know. This is really BetaRish's comment placed as a comment under one of his lists, and therefore out of the loop, as it were, for say, random word, word search, etc. Tryin' to get BR to put his comments under the word, rather than in his list comments.
July 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the word doubloons
Ah. Thanks.
July 30, 2007