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Definition of Fiorins
1. fiorin [n] - See also: fiorin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiorins
Literary usage of Fiorins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Robinson's New Higher Arithmetic: For High Schools, Academies, and by Horatio Nelson Robinson (1895)
"Siiver : boliviano and divisions. o (Gold: former system—4 fiorins ... Stiver:
dollar (or peso) and divisions. Gold: 10 fiorins. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"The grand falconer of France had four thousand fiorins per annum, was allowed
three hundred hawks, and had fifty gentlemen and fifty attendants to follow ..."
3. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History. by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"... and they attempted to reduce the reasonable demand of the Prince to thirty
thousand fiorins.f The Prince, who had poured out his own wealth so lavishly ..."
4. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1871)
"... notwithstanding the perilous nature of the trade ; for wheat could be bought
in Holland for fifty fiorins the last, or about fifteen pence sterling the ..."
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