guilder
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
guilder (plural guilders)
- The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
- The former currency unit in Suriname, divided into 100 cents.
- The current currency unit in the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles, divided into 100 cents.
- 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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