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florin|ˈflɒrɪn|
Forms: 4–9 floren(e, 4–7 florein, -eyne, 5 (floran), floryne, (floring), 4, 8– florin.
[a. Fr. florin = Pr., Sp. florin, It. fiorino, f. fiore:—L. flōr-em, flōs flower, the coin originally so called having the figure of a lily stamped upon it.
Some of the early forms can hardly be distinguished from those of the synonymous Florence n.1; there is no direct etymological connexion between the two words, though the ‘flower’ from which the Florentine coin took its name may have been used with allusion to the name of the city.]
1. The English name of a gold coin weighing about 54 grs., first issued at Florence in 1252.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 6201 Þere þey fonde þe cofre ful..Of florens, and of goldrynges. a1400Octouian 396 A palmer..bad for that chyld so bold Well many floreyne. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 252 This blythis me mekill mor, Than off floryng [v.r. floringis] ye gaiff me sexty scor. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxviii. 234 They left not in y⊇ abbey the valew of a floren. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. i. §38 Yet in after-Ages the Arch-Bishop of Canterburie's Pall was sold for five thousand Florenes. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. i. viii. 313 Edward the black prince..imposed a tax of a florin upon every hearth, in his French dominions. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. iv. 85 The republic of Florence, in the year 1252, coined its golden florin, of 24 carats fine, and of the weight of one drachm.
2. An English gold coin of the value of six shillings or six and eightpence, issued by Edward III. Obs. exc. Hist.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxv. 231 The floreyne that was callid the noble pris of vj shillynges viij pens of sterlinges. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 256 The king made a newe coyne of Golde and named it the Floreyn. 1697Evelyn Numism. i. 4 Our golden Florens in the reign of Edward III. 1866Crump Banking x. 222 Coinage of England..Edward III. Gold. Florin, half-florin.
3. The English name of various coins current at various times on the continent.
a. Gold coins.
1611Cotgr., Florin, a Florin, or Franc: an ancient coine of gold in France, worth ijs. sterl.: not currant at this day. 1811P. Kelly Univ. Cambist I. 177 The gold florins are chiefly current in the countries on the banks of the Rhine, passing generally for 2 Rixdollars current.
b. Silver coins.
1716Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Mrs. Thistlethwayte 26 Sept., The laws of Austria confine a woman's portion not to exceed two thousand florins. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Florin, As to silver Florins..Those of Genoa, &c. were worth about 81/4d. sterling. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 299 He..pays no more than eight or ten florins Polish money, which is four or five shillings in England. 1873Ouida Pascarèl I. 13 We only want a few florins.
4. An English silver coin of the value of two shillings, first minted in 1849.
1849Lond. Jrnl. 12 May 149 The new two shilling coin is to be called a florin.
Add:[3.] c. spec. The basic monetary unit of the Netherlands; a guilder.
1834P. L. Gordon Belgium & Holland I. 270 The new silver florin des Pays Bas, now in circulation. 1858Encycl. Brit. XV. 444 In 1820 the decimal system was introduced. In order, however, to cause as little inconvenience as possible, the florin = 1s 8{threeon4}d. sterling, was made the unit of the new system. 1905E. V. Lucas Wanderer in Holland i. 7 One has to recollect that the spidery letter ‘f’, which in..Brussels had stood for a franc, now symbolises that far more serious item the florin. 1987Statesman's Year-bk. 1987–88 890 The Netherlands... The monetary unit is the gulden (guilder, florin) of 100 cents. |