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A florin was a British coin used before decimal money arrived in 1971. It was worth two shillings, which became 10 pence (10p) in the new system; people also called it a two-shilling piece. The name is older than Britain. The first florins were gold coins from Florence, with a little lily (a flower) on them — that is why they were “little flower” coins. Other countries used a florin too: the Dutch was also called a florin, and Hungary’s forint is the same name in another shape. In British English today you meet it in history, in old prices, or in stories set before 1971.
佛羅林（英國舊幣，值兩先令，約現在的 10p；匈牙利貨幣「福林」forint 是同源詞）
組成From Middle English florin, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino, “little flower.” Doublet of fiorino and of Hungarian forint.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Florinname
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A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
florinnoun/ˈflɒɹɪn/
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Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
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A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).
- [I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.
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The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
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A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
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A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。