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I am a gentleman, a courtier, and a merry frank franion. [

—A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

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An idle, dissolute fellow; a paramour or boon companion; a gay or dissolute person of either sex. See first extract under frank, adjective, 5. This Ladie, which he sheweth here, Is not (I wager) Florimell at all; But some fayre Franion, fit for such a fere. Spenser, F. Q., V. iii. 22.

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I am a gentleman, a courtier, and a merry frank franion. [ — A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
Then, thou merry companion, thou whoreson frank franion, — A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
Hobbs tells the king that he is "a frank franion, a merry companion, and loves a wench well." — A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

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Perhaps a perverted form of Old French faineant, an idle or lazy fellow: see fainéant.

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