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Florin

//ˈflɒɹɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
  2. 2
    formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents wordnet
  3. 3
    A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).

    "[I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins."

  4. 4
    the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents wordnet
  5. 5
    The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
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  1. 6
    A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
  2. 7
    A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.

Etymology

From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino and forint.

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