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单词 doublejee
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doublejeedoublekeydoubleseedubbletien.

Forms: 1700s doublekey, 1700s doublesee, 1700s dubbletie, 1800s doublejee.
Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch dubbeltje.
Etymology: < Dutch dubbeltje, †dobbeltje sum of two stivers (1612), silver coin worth two stivers (1652; now a (colloquial) name for the 10-eurocent coin) < dubbel double adj.1 + -tje , suffix forming diminutives. Compare dubbeltjie n. 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdoublejee.
Adaptations or corruptions of Dutch dubbeltje, a coin formerly worth 10 cents, or about 2d. English.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Dutch coins
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1707 W. Funnell Voy. round World x. 292 A Doublekey; which is a piece of Money that goes for Two-pence.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 168 A Dubbletie..a twopenny piece of Dutch money.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 59 Two stiver pieces called doublesees.
1889 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 183 We had to put a doublejee or so into the wooden shoe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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