Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region and former duchy of southern Germany. One of the five primary duchies of medieval Germany, Franconia passed to Bavaria in 1810.
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- proper noun historic region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of
Bavaria and the area to its immediate west
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Examples
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And, since it is now asparagus season here in Franconia .... it was time to cast asparagus!
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I lived a couple years in Franconia, which produces wines that are drier than what most people think of when they think of German wine.
A wine lover’s postcard from Camp Basrah, Iraq | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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It is considered actively rude here in Franconia to talk to someone unless you have been introduced.
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It was the first work of the Dientzenhofers in Franconia, and is inspired by the typus of the Jesuit church as it existed in Rome and Bavaria.
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He bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.
robert frost | my november guest « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Bode Miller — 25, born in Franconia, N.H.; 2002 Olympic combined silver medalist and giant slalom silver medalist; bronze medalist at 2001 giant slalom World Cup; he started snowboarding and eventually switched to Alpine skiing.
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Like all other scientists the professor from Würzburg University in Franconia always sought recognition from his peers, but Röntgen rarely appeared at scientific conferences or wrote papers, let alone promoted his research findings outside of his field.
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Unfortunately, they’re so popular in Franconia, that Franken wines are hard to find even in other parts of Germany.
A wine lover’s postcard from Camp Basrah, Iraq | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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Franconia, which is also a diabase, but so fusible, that glass buttons are made of it, which are employed in the slave-trade on the coast of Guinea.
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I have compared them in my journal to the PATERLESTEIN of Fichtelberg, in Franconia, which is also a diabase, but so fusible, that glass buttons are made of it, which are employed in the slave-trade on the coast of Guinea.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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