gulden
Americannoun
plural
guldens, guldennoun
Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
Example Sentences
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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
In the morning, she gave the Lieutenant a thousand gulden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Willi promises his impecunious friend that he will gamble with what little money he can lay his hands on in the hope of winning 1,000 gulden.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 actual specie silver gulden in pieces of the time was nominally equivalent to 60 kreutzers.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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