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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1475-1599
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Floring, -yng, n. Also: floran, -ant, floren, fluryn. [ME. floreyne (a 1400), floren (1303). OF. florin.] A florin (in older senses). c1420 Wynt. ix. 1059 (W).
The richt noble King of France … Send thaim of flurynys [v.r. floryingis] xxx. thousand c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 252.
This blythis me mekill mor, Than off floryng [v.r. floringis] ye gaiff me sexty scor a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow iii. 126.
He [a cock] wald win to his maister in feild Fourty florans with bill and spuris beild 15.. Clariodus i. 417.
To give … Two thousand floringis to Clariodus 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 6450.
Scho askit him ane hundreth florens bricht 1596 Skene Mem. 231.
Tueching the decerning of the said David Skene … to pay to thame … the soume of aucht hundreth florantes
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