guilder
(ˈgɪldə(r))
Forms: 5 guldren, 6 gild(e)r(e)n, gylder, gelder, 6–8 gilder, 7– guilder.
[An English corrupted pronunciation of Du. gulden: see gulden.]
a. A gold coin formerly current in the Netherlands and parts of Germany. b. A Dutch silver coin, worth in 1900 about 1s. 8d. English.
| c 1481 Caxton Dialogues v. 17 Rynnysh guldrens. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 197 b, The same for euery good verse that he made should receiue a philippes gildren. 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. xi. 153 In gold they haue Clemers gylders and golden gilders, and gelders arerys. 1590 Shakes. Com. Err. iv. i. 4, I am bound To Persia, and want Gilders for my voyage. 1622 Fletcher Burning Bush i. ii, Two hundred chests, valued by you At thirty thousand Gilders. 1691 Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 46 Guilders is the Denomination that in Holland they usually compute by, and make their Contracts in. 1709 Addison Tatler No. 20 ¶7 Tradesmen, who, after their Day's Work is over, earn about a Gilder a Night by personating Kings and Generals. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 121 The hire and keeping of a horse from Trieste to Fiume comes to three Rhenish guilders. 1777 Watson Philip II (1839) 265 The damage..was estimated at six hundred thousand guilders. 1842 Browning Pied Piper ix, A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue. 1872 Yeats Growth Comm. 368 The gold guilders coined in the fourteenth century in Hungary and the Rhine regions. |