gulden
Americannoun
plural
guldens, guldennoun
Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
Example Sentences
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Your debt, lieutenant,' he added, in his most friendly manner, 'amounts to exactly eleven thousand gulden.
From Time Magazine Archive
The loss of a few gulden in a messenger robbery sets him yowling like an alley cat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Signed by Holland's world potent petrol tycoon, Sir Henri Deterding, it urged the Netherlands to reduce the gold content of the gulden, "in order to help trade."
From Time Magazine Archive
Chorus of one of the first Dutch popular songs composed to honor the newborn Princess is intelligible only if one knows that a riks is a coin worth 2� gulden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus— GROSCHEN.Reichs groschen, at 12 pfennige, 24 = 1 gulden, at 72 kreutzers.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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