Frankfort
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- IPA(key): /ˈfɹæŋkfɔːɹt/
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Frankfort
- A number of places in the United States, including:
- A city, the county seat of Clinton County, Indiana.
- The capital city of Kentucky, and the county seat of Franklin County.
- A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Pepin County, Wisconsin.
- Obsolete form of Frankfurt (“city in Germany”).
- 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter L, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 1:
- ABOUT this time, Madame de Seidlits received accounts of the failure of a houſe at Frankfort, in which her huſband had placed moſt part of the money he had left for the uſe of his widow and daughter. In the ſame houſe alſo was the reſidue of the money produced by the ſale of her furniture and other effects, when ſhe left Germany; […]
- 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
- I will only relate two of our adventures before we reached Frankfort.
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