Franca

[ frahn-kuh ]

/ ˈfrɑ̃ kə /

a city in Sao Paulo state, SE Brazil.

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Examples from the Web for franca

Attendees included members of Italian fashion royalty, such as Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani.
Christy Turlington Returns to Calvin Klein; H&M's Plus-Size Campaign|The Fashion Beast Team|May 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Franca Sozzani, editor of Italian Vogue, also expressed sympathy.
John Galliano, Fired by Dior, Checks Into Rehab|Isabel Wilkinson|March 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
In the 1980s, Baron and Franca Sozzani turned Italian Vogue into a laboratory for edgy, experimental photography.
The Magazine Whisperer|Jacob Bernstein|November 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST
His voice, too, had a peculiarly disagreeable tone, as in the lingua Franca of the Maltese mendicants he begged for alms.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean|W.H.G. Kingston

He could speak their tongue and he knew the sign language which was the lingua Franca of the western tribes.
When the West Was Young|Frederick R. Bechdolt
Angla, franca, germana do not take "j" because each refers to only one language, while malfacilaj refers to all those mentioned.
The Esperanto Teacher|Helen Fryer
Hastily opening it, the following lines, written in the lingua Franca so common in the Levant, were visible.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55|Various
Bowse repeated the question, in the lingua Franca of those seas.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean|W.H.G. Kingston