guilder

How To Use guilder In A Sentence

• Johann Fust , a local venture capitalist, loaned him 800 guilders in 1450.
• No self-respecting shopkeeper would touch the defeated currency, instead rattling off a long list of what was acceptable, everything from Dutch guilders and Indian rupees to francs, pounds, and the rare American dollars. A Covert Affair
• Beginning after the Second World War, for every guilder that was spent on highways, a few pfennigs went to building bikeways.
• The Elector Palatine in Dusseldorf appointed him as court-painter in 1697, with an annual salary of four thousand guilders, but left him free to sell half his pictures to others.
• The Dutch are angry at the price rises that accompanied the loss of the guilder and the launch of the euro, hostile towards the new east European members from last year's big-bang enlargement, and opposed to Turkey joining the union.
• Within two years of such a vote, pounds and pence could be going the same way as guilders and pfennigs.
• I looked into the breast pockets, and finally found it safely tucked into my sleeve pocket, where always I kept some coins and a 10–guilder note for the bus in case my bicycle tire ran out of air. Nomad
• He soon got through 90 guilders, which his father thought an excessive amount.
• Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
• The money ran into thousands of guilders (hundreds of pounds sterling) but went unnoticed by the bank.