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Frankish

[ US /ˈfɹæŋkɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the Franks

How To Use Frankish In A Sentence

  • The Frankish army was just threatening enough that Zengi could not risk being trapped between it and the Damascenes; he withdrew to Baalbeck to await a better moment.
  • A significant group of Frankish legal codices reflects the activity of a small group of scribes presided over by the cancellarius and associated with the royal court.
  • So they clad themselves in Frankish clothes and, when Kuzia Fakan saw them, she exclaimed, “By the truth of the Lord of Worship, did I not know you, I should take you to be indeed Franks!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Only wait, said he, and the Frankish bandits would fall to quarrelling among themselves like the robbers they were. THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
  • `And who, Mr Bowden," asked Tweedy, `was the chief of these Frankish bandits who quarrelled among themselves over the loot? THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
  • From the time of Charlemagne the above-named German tribes lived under Frankish constitution retaining their own old laws, which Charlemagne codified.
  • As they expanded, they began, for inscrutable Frankish reasons, to devoice word-final obstruents this is the blue isogloss, thereby establishing Frankish as its own distinct, highly conservative dialect. The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model
  • Modern attention tends to concentrate on the Romanic French side of the splitting Frankish world of the ninth and tenth centuries, because a particularly strong and creative society would find its center there in succeeding centuries. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
  • Contemporary Frankish writers are explicit in making the timing of the battle of Fontenoy dependant on Pippin's appearance.
  • [Footnote 93: I call the Frankish king by the name by which he is best known in history, though no doubt the more correct form is either Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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