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F.F.V.

American  

abbreviation

  1. First Families of Virginia.


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The Freeman family moved to Virginia in 1742, which makes them not quite F.F.V., but Biographer Freeman's maternal ancestors were.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wash., making biscuits marketed under three names, including its popular F.F.V.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jeff was a native Virginian and belonged to an F.F.V. in a certain practical, legal sense which thus far had not greatly disturbed his equanimity.

From Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

One is the civilization of the F.F.V., converted into that peculiar form of noblesse known the round world over as the Blue-Grass Aristocracy.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

The F.F.V. was born a gentleman; his highest duty in life was to watch over that great inheritance and keep it unsmirched.

From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

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