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Definition of Gilders
1. gilder [n] - See also: gilder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gilders
Literary usage of Gilders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches of America: A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through by Henry Bradshaw Fearon (1818)
"Si'vering looking-glasses is a separate trade: there is but one silverer in New
York, and he is not constantly employed. Carvers and gilders are paid ..."
2. Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware by New Castle (Del.). Court, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (1904)
"sume of eight six gilders and ten ... to bee Enterred against the def for ye sd
86 gilders 10 ... was ordered for 235 gilders 4 ..."
3. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1903)
"To my cousin, Wolfert Webbers, Sr., or his heirs, 200 gilders, together with the two
... The whole amount of the aforesaid legacies being 5000 gilders. ..."
4. Fleurs-de-lys: A Book of French Poetry Freely Tr. Into English Verse by Wilfrid Charles Thorley (1920)
"THE SONG OF THE PROW-gilders WE are the gilders of the prows. The whirl-winds
the smooth sea arouse, Spun onward like a turning wheel; They fill the hollows ..."
5. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"... whether and how it may exist. 4. To what it amounts in our Presents. 3.2.]
gilders, lawfully made, will become entirely void, or for to much as ..."
6. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"There are no extensive gilders in the South or ... gilders in Boston write : "
We employ a girl to burnish, and pay from $3 to $5 per week, ten hours a day. ..."
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