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fforde

fforde proper noun: a surname: compare Fforde.

Proper noun

fforde

  1. A surname: compare Fforde.
    • [...] his 'crime' was discovered, was summoned to see the headmaster, Sir Arthur fforde. It could potentially have been a flogging offence, but the headmaster, bizarrely, offered him a glass of nonalcoholic sherry. It no doubt helped that fforde, like [...]2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled: The Life & Times of Nick & Ann Winterton, Two Westminster Mavericks, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN

Origin of fforde

A variant of Forde/Ford: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare ffrench.

Questions about fforde

What does fforde mean?
Fforde means a surname: compare Fforde.
What part of speech is fforde?
Fforde is a proper noun.

Words near fforde in the dictionary

  1. FFLO phase
  2. FFM
  3. FFMs
  4. FFO
  5. ffooks
  6. fforde
  7. Fforest-fach
  8. Fforestfach
  9. ffoulkes
  10. FFP
  11. FFPs

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