Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete spellings of florin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A cerain gold coin; a Florence.
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Examples
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The floren was a coin that ought to have had twenty-four carats of pure gold.
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Thuman of balis, and one balis is worth a floren and a halfe of our coyne: insomuch that one Thuman of balis amounteth vnto the value of fifteene thousand florens.
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Balis in regard of tribute: and a Balis is fiue papers or pieces of silke, which are worth one floren and an halfe of our coine.
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All which being performed, he gave, moreover, in the chapter-house, fifty floren nobles to be distributed amongst the officers of the church. "
Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870
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IX.) ult.fol. verfo inflritdum efl « ChaC Ronf« elegans i capitales floren - tes.
Specimen historico criticum editionum italicarum saeculi XV 1794
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*) Vii Bartholemei non fic canerent. fcilicet fi ipfe henricus welder capitulo ejufdem ecclefie vel juniori canonico xvii}. floren« folveret ad ftatim & afligTiaret capituli no* mine recipiendos, ipfi parati efient ipfum recipere
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1778
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