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Definition of florin in English: florinnoun ˈflɒrɪn 1A former British coin and monetary unit worth two shillings. 弗罗林(英国旧制硬币及货币单位,价值2先令) Example sentencesExamples - If you managed to root out a florin or find some letters written by your great-grandparents during the euro changeover clearout, then you might be holding onto something more valuable than sentiment.
- 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.
- Pontormo agreed to pay thirteen florins a year for Piero's house, testifying to the younger artist's increasing prosperity in the wake of important commissions like the Salone at Poggio a Caiano.
- They understood very little English, and the only coin of the realm which they recognised was the florin.
- The artists were to stick closely to the agreed drawing, and the religious friar was to receive a very worldly payment of ‘one hundred and ninety gold florins ' for his labour.
- In one case, Zanobi successfully petitioned the board to order Galeasso di Lapi da Uzzano to pay an outstanding bill of 370 florins.
- Europe's policy-makers went through virtually every monetary name in the continent's history, with early favourites such as the florin and the schilling failing to make the cut.
- Ludwig provided 30,000 florins for the completion of the already advanced Ring cycle and granted Wagner an annual allowance of 8000 florins, with occasional top-up amounts in addition.
- There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
- Likewise, the Spannocchi family earned twenty florins from its palace's shops in 1488, while the Sansedoni family members shared the ownership of the shops in their palace.
- The record price of €127,000 was paid for an Anglo-Irish 1642 gold coin at Whyte's in 2000 and in the same year a 1943 florin, the two shilling piece, fetched €20,000.
- Because of the high volumes of change that passed through my hands, every few days I'd find an old silver shilling, or a two shilling florin.
- 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 latter suggested that he should immediately send Schuppanzigh the fifty florins subscription fee.
- No more will the devil's mouthwash flood their coffers with shillings and florins.
- But maybe we can understand Bloom's florin as a fictional revenant if not an historical precedent.
- There was also a florin, but the date cannot be discerned.
- In 1811 Peter Arnold Mumm, a successful banker and wine merchant, purchased the entire Schloss Johannisberg vintage for 32,000 florins.
- Other valuable coins include a 1943 florin worth a four-figure sum and a 1938 Irish penny which is extremely rare because only one has been found to date.
- The original patron's heirs sold the rights to the chapel to their neighbor Antonio Paganelli in 1487 for two hundred florins.
- 1.1 An English gold coin of the 14th c., worth six shillings and eight old pence.
弗罗林(14世纪英国金币,价值6先令8便士) Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- The innovation of Edward III's reign was the introduction in 1344 of gold coins - a florin, half-florin, and quarter-florin.
- Indeed, the only major gain independent of his marriage was a payment of twenty-five thousand florins for the capture of Charles le Blois, duke of Brittany, in 1347.
- And six coins were recovered including a florin, a sixpence, two pennies and two half pennies.
2A foreign coin of gold or silver, especially a Dutch guilder. 弗罗林(英国以外其他国家金币或银币,尤指荷兰盾) Example sentencesExamples - In comparison, a house along a canal in Amsterdam cost 10,000 florins in those days.
- The answer is a lottery ticket, worth a million florins.
- Money management is very important as well; nothing is more frustrating in this game than having to turn in prestige points to get money, unless it's losing the game by a point with 400 florins in front of you.
- The currency is the Netherlands Antilles florin or ‘guilder ‘, with an exchange rate fixed to the US dollar: Naf1.75 = US $1.’
- A moderate work of value, say, 14 points earns 1400 florins.
- The Dutch offered 5,000 troops and 50,000 florins per month.
- Vallo believes these people, led by El Libre, will easily pay 50,000 gold florins for the huge stash of weapons.
- The days of fooling around with a rocket leaf or a piece of ‘exquisite’ meat the size of a florin, are gone.
- He was pleased to do this, and not only because it brought him an income of 20 florins a time (his annual salary was only 150 florins a year) but because his interest in astrology was life-long.
- The estimated cost of maintaining the campaign in the Netherlands was 1.2 million florins / month, yet the military treasury received only one-quarter that amount from Spain.
- Traders could earn as much as 60,000 florins in a month - not a bad commission even by 20th century standards.
- Netherlands Antilles florins are pegged to the US dollar.
3The basic monetary unit of Aruba, equal to 100 cents. 弗罗林(阿鲁巴基本货币单位,等于100分) Example sentencesExamples - They have their own Aruban paper and coin florins and won't accept NAfs from Bonaire or Curaçao.
- Though the dollar dropped against the florin in our three-year window, it fell by just two cents, from 1.79 to 1.77.
- Your zarpe to wherever will cost you 25 florin.
OriginVia Old French from Italian fiorino, diminutive of fiore 'flower', from Latin flos, flor-. The word originally denoted a gold coin issued in Florence, bearing a fleur-de-lis (the city's emblem) on the reverse. Definition of florin in US English: florinnoun 1A former British coin and monetary unit worth two shillings. 弗罗林(英国旧制硬币及货币单位,价值2先令) Example sentencesExamples - Ludwig provided 30,000 florins for the completion of the already advanced Ring cycle and granted Wagner an annual allowance of 8000 florins, with occasional top-up amounts in addition.
- Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
- No more will the devil's mouthwash flood their coffers with shillings and florins.
- If you managed to root out a florin or find some letters written by your great-grandparents during the euro changeover clearout, then you might be holding onto something more valuable than sentiment.
- The record price of €127,000 was paid for an Anglo-Irish 1642 gold coin at Whyte's in 2000 and in the same year a 1943 florin, the two shilling piece, fetched €20,000.
- Because of the high volumes of change that passed through my hands, every few days I'd find an old silver shilling, or a two shilling florin.
- Likewise, the Spannocchi family earned twenty florins from its palace's shops in 1488, while the Sansedoni family members shared the ownership of the shops in their palace.
- The artists were to stick closely to the agreed drawing, and the religious friar was to receive a very worldly payment of ‘one hundred and ninety gold florins ' for his labour.
- The latter suggested that he should immediately send Schuppanzigh the fifty florins subscription fee.
- There was also a florin, but the date cannot be discerned.
- Other valuable coins include a 1943 florin worth a four-figure sum and a 1938 Irish penny which is extremely rare because only one has been found to date.
- At a time when an upmarket townhouse cost 5,000 florins, a single Viceroy, white striped with purple, changed hands for 3,500 florins.
- Europe's policy-makers went through virtually every monetary name in the continent's history, with early favourites such as the florin and the schilling failing to make the cut.
- But maybe we can understand Bloom's florin as a fictional revenant if not an historical precedent.
- Pontormo agreed to pay thirteen florins a year for Piero's house, testifying to the younger artist's increasing prosperity in the wake of important commissions like the Salone at Poggio a Caiano.
- 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.
- They understood very little English, and the only coin of the realm which they recognised was the florin.
- In 1811 Peter Arnold Mumm, a successful banker and wine merchant, purchased the entire Schloss Johannisberg vintage for 32,000 florins.
- In one case, Zanobi successfully petitioned the board to order Galeasso di Lapi da Uzzano to pay an outstanding bill of 370 florins.
- The original patron's heirs sold the rights to the chapel to their neighbor Antonio Paganelli in 1487 for two hundred florins.
- There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
2A foreign coin of gold or silver, especially a Dutch guilder. 弗罗林(英国以外其他国家金币或银币,尤指荷兰盾) Example sentencesExamples - He was pleased to do this, and not only because it brought him an income of 20 florins a time (his annual salary was only 150 florins a year) but because his interest in astrology was life-long.
- Vallo believes these people, led by El Libre, will easily pay 50,000 gold florins for the huge stash of weapons.
- Netherlands Antilles florins are pegged to the US dollar.
- The answer is a lottery ticket, worth a million florins.
- The currency is the Netherlands Antilles florin or ‘guilder ‘, with an exchange rate fixed to the US dollar: Naf1.75 = US $1.’
- The days of fooling around with a rocket leaf or a piece of ‘exquisite’ meat the size of a florin, are gone.
- A moderate work of value, say, 14 points earns 1400 florins.
- The estimated cost of maintaining the campaign in the Netherlands was 1.2 million florins / month, yet the military treasury received only one-quarter that amount from Spain.
- Money management is very important as well; nothing is more frustrating in this game than having to turn in prestige points to get money, unless it's losing the game by a point with 400 florins in front of you.
- In comparison, a house along a canal in Amsterdam cost 10,000 florins in those days.
- The Dutch offered 5,000 troops and 50,000 florins per month.
- Traders could earn as much as 60,000 florins in a month - not a bad commission even by 20th century standards.
3The basic monetary unit of Aruba, equal to 100 cents. 弗罗林(阿鲁巴基本货币单位,等于100分) Example sentencesExamples - They have their own Aruban paper and coin florins and won't accept NAfs from Bonaire or Curaçao.
- Though the dollar dropped against the florin in our three-year window, it fell by just two cents, from 1.79 to 1.77.
- Your zarpe to wherever will cost you 25 florin.
OriginVia Old French from Italian fiorino, diminutive of fiore ‘flower’, from Latin flos, flor-. The word originally denoted a gold coin issued in Florence, bearing a fleur-de-lis (the city's emblem) on the reverse. |