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  • For the purposes of this edition, and so as to remain neatly "in theme," we'll call the little guy in the lower left "Frank." franc, franche (frawn, frawnsh) adjective

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • For the purposes of this edition, and so as to remain neatly "in theme," we'll call the little guy in the lower left "Frank." franc, franche (frawn, frawnsh) adjective

    franc - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • For the purposes of this edition, and so as to remain neatly "in theme," we'll call the little guy in the lower left "Frank." franc, franche (frawn, frawnsh) adjective

    Recette / Recipe 2010

  • Reading you blog today my mouth was watering at the mention of the olive cake and I was wishing you had been franche and asked for the recipe.

    franc - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Reading you blog today my mouth was watering at the mention of the olive cake and I was wishing you had been franche and asked for the recipe.

    franc - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Mall, send her a white silk gown and hat, 'made exactly of the English fashion ... as the present franche

    Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

  • Ca a ete une franche partie de rigolade!! la Chasse au Mokona

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • (Danish saining) (pche la senne danoise) (con red danesa) flying mesh or flymesh maille folle malla libre foam plastic mousse do plastique plstico poroso footrope bourrelet ralingue infrieure relinga de promos, burln front weight poids antrieur peso anterior full mesh maille franche malla entera

    Chapter 5 1983

  • “Puis j'aurais su *********************** Ce que l'on dit du bel et saint exemple Que la Ninon donne a tous les mondains, En se logeant avecque les nonais, Combien de pleurs la pauvre jouvencelle A repandus quand sa mere, sans elle, Cierges brulants et portant ecussons, Pretres chantant leurs funebres chanson, Voulut aller de linge enveloppee Servir aux vers d'une franche lippee.”

    Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903

  • Nous tenons donc qu'il faut obeir ` a leurs lois et statuts, [305] payer tributs, impots et autres devoirs, et porter le joug de subjection d'une bonne et franche volonte, encore qu'ils fussent infideles, moyennant que l'empire souverain de Dieu demeure en son entier.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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