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Frankfort   /frˈæŋkfərt/   Listen
Frankfort

noun
1.
The capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky.  Synonym: capital of Kentucky.
2.
A German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center.  Synonyms: Frankfurt, Frankfurt on the Main.






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"Frankfort" Quotes from Famous Books



... of KING FERDINAND are discussed by a Frankfort paper in an article entitled "What Bulgaria wants." Significantly enough the ground covered is almost identical with the subject-matter of an unpublished article of our own, entitled "What Bulgaria ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, August 1, 1917. • Various

... until we pulled in at Frankfort-on-the-Main, the second last stop for the express in Germany. Glancing out of the window I saw a party of three entering the carriage. They selected the compartment next to mine. Obviously they were traveling together, equally obvious was it that there was plenty of room in their own compartment. ...
— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

... down to write on any other occasion, than to tell my dear lady, that I have not forgot her obliging command, of sending her some account of my travels. I have already passed a large part of Germany, have seen all that is remarkable in Cologn, Frankfort, Wurtsburg, and this place. 'Tis impossible not to observe the difference between the free towns and those under the government of absolute princes, as all the little sovereigns of Germany are. In the first, there ...
— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague

... his affairs was laid open by his death. The failure of great mercantile houses at Frankfort and Liege was the cause of ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown

... innovation in taxation is the 'unearned increment' tax on land values, first adopted by Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1904, and already applied by over 300 German ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling


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