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Fries

//fɹaɪz// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A town in Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of fry form-of, plural
  2. 2
    Ellipsis of french fries. Canada, Philippines, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, plural, plural-normally
  3. 3
    strips of potato fried in deep fat wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of fry form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

The town was named after a prominent cotton-mill owner, Francis Henry Fries. The surname is converged from both Friesland and French friche (“fallow land”), found in Swiss French.

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