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Old Franconian

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noun

  1. the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.


Example Sentences

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Thus the activities of mechanics, art, and literature pressed forward with equal fervor in the quaint old Franconian city, while Albert Dürer’s life was passing on.

From Project Gutenberg

He sprang from an old Franconian family, the heirs, not indeed of much wealth or property, but of an old knightly spirit of independence.

From Project Gutenberg