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One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.
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The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
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The former currency unit in Suriname, divided into 100 cents.
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The current currency unit in the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles, divided into 100 cents.
Examples of guilders in a Sentence
He received 400 guilders, more than triple his organist's annual salary.
For this he was paid 38 guilders on 11 May 1626.
Mistake number 3. Martin's entry cost 80 guilders, with 50 back for return of the chip and mine was just 15 guilders.
Here d'Orville, to whom he had an introduction, proposed to retain him as his amanuensis at a salary of six hundred guilders.
Ultimately he seems to have got free access to the collection, which he re-catalogued - the work of almost a whole summer, for which the curators rewarded him with nine guilders.
He had civil and criminal jurisdiction within the boundaries of his estate; he could create offices, found cities, and appoint officers and magistrates, and, although the charter permitted an appeal from his court to the directorgeneral and council in any case in which the amount in dispute exceeded fifty guilders ($20), some of the patroons exacted from their colonists a promise not to avail themselves of the privilege.
The administration of justice is entrusted (1) to the high council (hooge rand) at the Hague, the supreme court of the whole kingdom, and the tribunal for all high government officials and for the members of the states-general; (2) to the five courts of justice established at Amsterdam, the Hague, Arnhem, Leeuwarden and 's Hertogenbosch; (3) to tribunals established in each arrondissement; (4) to cantonal judges appointed over a group of communes, whose jurisdiction is restricted to claims of small amount (under 200 guilders), and to breaches of police regulations, and who at the same time look after the interest of minors.