Fforde
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Definitions
- 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 [...]"
Example
More examples"[...] 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 [...]"
Etymology
A variant of Forde/Ford: in some blackletter typefaces, capital F looked like (and was later taken to be) two lowercase fs. Compare ffrench.
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