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franc|fræŋk|
Forms: 4–8 frank, 9 franc.
[a. F. franc, said to be derived from the legend Francorum rex, ‘king of the Franks’, on the first coins which were so called.
The F. word appears as the name of a gold coin in an official document of 1360 (Hatz.-Darm.); the legend Francorum rex occurs on a gold coin struck in the same year.]
The name of a French coin or money of account, of different values at different periods. a. A gold coin, in the 14th c. weighing about 60 grs., and intrinsically worth about 10s. 6d. (1897), but afterwards depreciated. b. (Sometimes pound franc.) A silver coin, first struck in 1575, identical with the livre tournois of 20 sols; in the 18th c. English money-changers valued it at 9d. or 10d. c. Since 1795, a silver coin representing the monetary unit of the decimal system; its value was slightly more than 9½d in the late 19th c.
c1386Chaucer Shipman's T. 201, I wol bringe yow an hundred frankes. c1400Sowdone Bab. 589 Take a thausande pounde of Frankis fyne. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 527 A franke is worth .ii.s. sterlg. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ix. 236 Ilk ȝeir how lang he lyuet xxx thousand frankis. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 223 The yearely tribute of..eight hundred thousand franks of siluer. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Mark vi. 34 note, Beza reckoneth the 200 pence, to 35 pound Frank of Tours. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xxxii. 129 A Chicken of Gold..which amounts to Seven Francs and half. 1810Naval Chron. XXIV. 300 A piece of silver weighing five grams..to which has been applied the term Franc. 1892E. Reeves Homewd. Bound 227 We had again to turn our pesetas into francs at a loss. |