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dou⋅bloon

[duh-bloon]
–noun
a former gold coin of Spain and Spanish America, originally equal to two escudos but fluctuating in value.

Origin:
1615–25; < Sp doblón, equiv. to dobl(a) dobla + -ón aug. suffix
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dou·bloon   (dŭ-blōōn')   
n.  A gold coin formerly used in Spain and Spanish America.

[Spanish doblón, augmentative of dobla, Spanish coin, from Latin dupla, feminine of duplus, double; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]
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doubloon 
1622, from Sp. doblon a gold coin, augmentive of doble "double" (coin so called because it was worth twice as much as the Sp. gold pistole), from L. duplus "double."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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