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The track was always full of crap; beads and doubloons and God knows what else.—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025 In the pirate’s bounty scene of the attraction amid the overflowing treasure chests and mounds of gold doubloons.—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024 It’s estimated that the Eras Tour has already generated some $4.6 billion in consumer spending, and the beyond-robust ticket sales for the Eras Tour movie mean that the doubloons in Swift’s bank account are multiplying exponentially with every passing minute.—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023 Treasure hunters have long been obsessed with retrieving shiny gold doubloons and dazzling jewels from shipwrecks in the Bahamas.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for doubloon
Word History
Etymology
Spanish doblón, augmentative of dobla, an old Spanish coin, from Latin dupla, feminine of duplus double — more at double
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