gulden
Americannoun
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guldens,
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gulden
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
Example Sentences
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The Free City of Danzig is about to discard German marks and substitute an independent currency with 100 heller to one gulden.
From Time Magazine Archive
One and five gulden coins will also be minted.
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
But since 1551 there had been minted a Reichs gulden in specie equal to 72 kreutzers.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Well, I think I did my business very well, and richly earned the thousand guldens my dearly beloved wife promised me, if I would free her dear Stielow.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
Michel presented him with another hundred thousand guldens, and the two parted on the best of terms.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
A dowry of a thousand guldens for the boy, and two hundred for the father!
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
According to it the Reichs thaler was raised to 120 kreutzers, or 2 florins, the mark being minted into 12 thalers or 18 guldens.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Uriel was summoned before the tribunal, condemned to pay three hundred guldens, imprisoned for eight days.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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