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franklin: freeholder; orig., in 14-15th cent., the name of a class of landowners, of free but not noble birth, and ranking next below the gentry Wint. V. ii. 181 [173] “boors and f-s,” 1H4 II. i. 60, Cym. III. ii. 78 “no costlier than would fit A f-'s housewife.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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