guilder
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɪldə/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈɡɪldɚ/
Noun

guilder (plural guilders)

  1. The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
  2. The former currency unit in Suriname, divided into 100 cents.
  3. The current currency unit in the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles, divided into 100 cents.
  4. Obsolete spelling of gilder#English|gilder (“one who gilds”)
    • 1609 December (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: By Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342 ↗, Act I, scene i, page 532 ↗:
      A lady ſhould, indeed, ſtudie her face, when wee thinke ſhee ſleepes: nor, when the dores are ſhut, ſhould men bee inquiring, all is ſacred within, then. [...] you ſee guilders will not worke, but inclos'd. They muſt not diſcouer, how little ſerues, with the helpe of art, to adorne a great deale.
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