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doblon

doblon is the obsolete form of doubloon.

Meaning of doubloon

Noun

doubloon (plural doubloons)

  1. (historical) 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 pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and...1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

Forms of doblon

pluraldoblons
pluraldoblones

Origin of doblon

Spanish doblón

Questions about doblon

What is doblon the obsolete form of?
Doblon is the obsolete form of doubloon.

Words near doblon in the dictionary

  1. doblas
  2. Doble
  3. Dobler
  4. Doblers
  5. Dobles
  6. doblon
  7. doblones
  8. doblons
  9. Dobos
  10. Dobos torte
  11. Dobos torten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doblon (page history and authors); doubloon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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