gulden
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
Example Sentences
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There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes.
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
What might not happen in this house, while he was forced to sit in a wretched coffee house earning a thousand gulden for the sake of a broken comrade?
From Time Magazine Archive
They did get a 20-year loan of 12,000,000 gulden from the Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then we apprise the Rhenish gold gulden and kreutzers less than foreign nations.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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