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Fforde

name

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Proper Noun
  1. 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 [...]"

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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