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UK
/flˈɒɹɪn/
]
[ US /ˈfɫɔɹɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɔɹɪn/ ]
NOUN
- the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents
- formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents
How To Use florin In A Sentence
- Florin dismissed any notion of martial law-like conditions prevailing.
- Hungary, yet was my attorney obliged to solicit the instrument called ritter-diploma, for which, under pain of execution, I must pay two thousand florins. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
- Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
- At a time when an upmarket townhouse cost 5,000 florins, a single Viceroy, white striped with purple, changed hands for 3,500 florins.
- At length a peasant was found who suited our purpose; but he considered two florins per diem too little pay, so I was obliged to give an additional zwanziger. Visit to Iceland
- In 1363, for example, Bindo Benini donated to the monastery a relatively modest sum of 120 florins in order to help defray construction and decoration costs of a burial chapel in the chapterhouse.
- There were the reported sins of Sister Cornelia of the Convent of Leuven, who was accused, tried and convicted of stealing 1,300 florins from a patient.
- The answer is a lottery ticket, worth a million florins.
- Netherlands Antilles florins are pegged to the US dollar.
- Other characters include Hellena, Florinda's sister, and Willmore, a young rake who falls in love with her.