Franchot

[fran-chuht]

noun

1. a male given name, form of Francis.

Example Sentences

In 1940, The Times assiduously documented the movie stars’ holiday doings: Broderick Crawford heading off on a Honolulu honeymoon; housemates Franchot Tone and Burgess Meredith throwing a dinner for friends; Errol Flynn motoring to Palm Springs for the tennis; Donald Crisp and George Brent out on the water on their respective yachts; Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor golfing with Jack Benny and his wife, Mary Livingstone; and “the Bela Lugosis are going to his mother’s for dinner.”

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Franchot Tone’s car died and left him stuck, until he saw a bread truck and asked the driver for a lift.

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Franchot hugged her, and encouraged her to “stay independent.”

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Franchot finished third in a crowded primary field.

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In a private ceremony before the inauguration, Lierman handed Franchot the first of her “challenge coins,” an engraved memento Maryland’s comptrollers have given out for decades.

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