释义 |
florinflor‧in /ˈflɒrɪn $ ˈflɔː-, ˈflɑː-/ noun [countable] - A florin hovered in his hand and a look of indecision wrinkled his brow.
- His salary - 150 florins a year - was modest, but reasonable for a 16-year-old.
- In the early sixteenth century the family assets were estimated at more than sixty-three million florins.
- It had over 20 performances in Vienna alone, and brought Mozart 1,200 florins in the first two days.
- It had promised him 1000 florins a year in a year's time.
- The florin and the ducat were seemingly equivalent coins, the former more used in Tuscany and the latter in Venice.
a coin that was used in Britain before 1971, worth about 10p |