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Florin
florin
n. hist. 1 a a British silver or alloy two-shilling coin of the 19th-20th c. (now worth 10 pence at face value). b an English gold coin of the 14th c., worth 6s. 8d. (33 pence). 2 a foreign coin of gold or silver, esp. a Dutch guilder. Etymology: ME f. OF f. It. fiorino dimin. of fiore flower f. L flos floris, the orig. coin having a figure of a lily on it
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Old Italian fiorino, from fiore flower, from Latin flor-, flos; from the lily on the coins Date: 14th century 1. an old gold coin first struck at Florence in 1252, any of various European gold coins patterned after the Florentine ~, 2. a British silver coin worth two shillings, any of several similar coins issued in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, gulden ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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