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doubloon

[ UK /dʌblˈuːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a former Spanish gold coin

How To Use doubloon In A Sentence

  • Most valued are the doubloons, aluminum coins about the size of a silver dollar with the krewe's emblem.
  • 'Tut, tut, Buonesperado,' laughed he, 'you shall forget that Tyburn is not a fable if you care to have doubloons reminted at the Queen's mint. Michel and Angele — Volume 3
  • 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. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
  • My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
  • I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
  • In the late 1990s America's superior growth prospects were perceived to be good for the Cheap potbs Doubloon dollar, as the country attracted portfolio flows into technology stocks.
  • A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit of my going out, and sometimes six pistoles. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
  • She had picked up Pete's pillow, and there was the gold doubloon. THREE IN ONE
  • On other days, he scrambled across the slick rocks that jettied like islands out of the sea, searching for gold doubloons that toyed with a glint of sun trapped under the water. Popular in the last 8 hours
  • And a lot of people really wanted to call the twonie a doubloon, but it just didn't stick. twonie rhymes with loonie, and there you go. It's the little things
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