Definition of "guilder" [guil•der]

• See Table at currency. (noun)
• The primary unit of currency in the Netherlands before the adoption of the euro. (noun)

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• "Praying for Mr. Fugger and his descendants to enter the Pearly Gates is a condition for living here, at an annual rent of 1 Rhein guilder, the same as in 1520."
• "Joelle, a younger restaurant manager, is half-prepared to accept a return to the guilder, however."
• "Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder."