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‖ gulden|ˈgʊldən|
Forms: 6– gulden, (6 guylden, gylden, 7 guilding); Sc. 6 gudlyne, -lyng, guidlin(g, 6–7 gudlene.
[Ger., Du. gulden (also G. gülden), strictly an adj. = of gold, golden, cogn. w. OE. gylden gilden a.]
†a. A gold coin, spec. one of various obsolete gold coins of Germany and the Netherlands (obs.).
b. The name was subsequently transferred to a silver coin, the value of which differed in various countries and at various periods; it survives in Holland (= guilder).
In recent use the plural is commonly gulden as in Ger.
15..Aberd. Reg. (Jam.), He gave hyme in kepyng tua vnicornis & ane Philipis gudlene. Ibid. XVII. (Jam.) The soum of fyw gudlyngis. 1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 40 He spendeth many a gulden To hange morther and bren The masses aduersaries. 1535Coverdale 2 Kings v. 5 He..toke with him ten hundreth weighte of syluer, and sixe thousande guldens [1611 pieces of gold]. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 4170 Gold Smythis fair-well!.. To mix, set ȝe nocht by twa preinis, Fyne Ducat gold with hard Gudlingis. a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 330/1 These two men did gather..within y⊇ space of ij. moneths...xx. M. guyldens. 1587Jas. VI Let. to Winȝet in W.'s Wks. (1890) II. App. p. xxv, The sowme of sevin scoir fyve guidlins. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 285 Most reckonings of Germany are made by common siluer guldens..these Guldens are..neere the value of three shillings foure pence English... The Gold Rhenish Guldens of Germany are almost of the same standard with the Crowne Gold of England. 1645Sc. Acts Chas. I (1814) VI. 163/2 Granted for payment of the Gudlines, Silver-work, and others publick debts. a1652Brome Eng. Moor iv. i. Wks. 1873 II. 51 Here at this Inne abide, and wait my coming. Be careful of my guildings. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 311 The duke of Modena..proposed to some persons in Germany a loan of two hundred thousand guldens on a mortgage of the territory of Mirandola. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 97 The general grant of 100,000 gulden. 1865Pall Mall G. 3 July 1/1 The Reichsrath was obliged to vote a supply of thirteen millions of guldens. 1898Q. Rev. July 8 Reuchlin..was nominated..with a hundred gold gulden as salary.
attrib.1873Ouida Pascarel I. 66 He was delighted to sell it for 12 gulden notes to a German Jew dealer. |