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florin

[ UK /flˈɒɹɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫɔɹɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents
  2. 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.
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