Florence

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• A city of central Italy on the Arno River east of Pisa. Originally an Etruscan settlement, then a Roman town, Florence was a powerful city-state under the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, with a brilliant artistic flowering led by Giotto, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante Alighieri, and Raphael. Florence was the capital of newly unified Italy from 1865 to 1871, when the government was moved to Rome.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An English gold coin, usually called florin.
• noun A kind of cloth manufactured in Florence, mentioned in the time of Richard III. Planché; Fairholt. Also called florentine.
• noun A thin silk, a variety of taffeta.
• noun A variety of the red wine of Tuscany: a name not commonly used in Italy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
• noun A kind of cloth.
• noun See under Flask.
• noun olive oil prepared in Florence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper noun A province of Tuscany, Italy.
• proper noun The capital city of the province Florence.
• proper noun The capital city of the Deparment of Caquetá, Colombia.
• proper noun A female given name
• noun historical An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III, coined by Florentines and worth six shillings sterling.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries
• noun a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center