‖ ˈdobla Obs. exc. Hist.
[Sp.: cf. doble double.]
An obsolete Spanish gold coin.
| [1599 Minsheu, Dobla, a peece of money called a double containing 23 rials and a halfe, of English money ten shillings ten pence halfepenie.] 1829 W. Irving Granada i. (1850) 22 (Stanf.) An annual tribute of twelve thousand doblas or pistoles of gold. 1838 Prescott Ferd. & Is. II. ii. v. 343 A substantial donative of gold doblas. |