double eagle

English

double eagle (heraldry)

Noun

double eagle (plural double eagles)

1. (US, numismatics) A gold coin with a face value of $20 formerly used in the United States, the double of the US eagle coin.
2. (golf) Three under par, one stroke short of an ace (a hole in one) on a par-five hole.
3. A representation of an eagle with two heads, as in the heraldic arms of Russia and Austria and in iconography from Antiquity onward (especially in the Roman Empire).
   • 1865, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 294:

     When a legion pitched its camp, the eagle was placed in its centre; and if it happened that two legions encamped together, they erected upon the limits of the two camps a double eagle, with heads and wings opposed.

   • 2011, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 115:

     The black imperial double eagle is better known and still features on the Albanian national flag.

   • 2018, Eirini Panou, The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium, Routledge, →ISBN:

     That the donors were members of the local Byzantine aristocracy is shown by the double eagle on one of the female donors' attire and demonstrates the continuation of artistic production by the Byzantine elite in Venetian Crete.

Synonyms

• (golf): albatross

Translations

golf: three under par, one stroke short of an ace

• Irish: iolar dúbailte m, albatras m