originally med. L., combining form of Franc-i the Franks or French; chiefly in combs. signifying ‘Frank or French and …’ as Franco-American, -Gallican, -Gauls, -German, -negroid, -Prussian, -Roman. Cf. ANGLO- 2.
1711. Ld. Molesworth, trans. Hotman’s Franco-Gallia (1721), 12. These were Franks, not Gauls; or rather Franco-gauls, who made use of their own native Language, the German Tongue. Ibid., 28. Seems rather to have design’d a Romance, like that of Amadis, than a true History of the Francogallican Affairs.
1817. G. S. Faber, Sacred Cal. Prophecy (1844), II. 182. The identical system adopted by the Franco-Roman Emperor in carving out vassal principalities for his chief and most faithful officers.
1861. J. G. Sheppard, Fall Rome, xiii. 740. As early as the seventh century, in fact, the Franco-Gallican Church, if we are to judge of it from its highest dignitaries, would seem to have almost entirely lost the character of a religious institution.
1883. Harper’s Mag., LXVI. Feb., 478/1. The Franco-American Claims’ Committee decided in favour of the claim of a Frenchman for the value of some slaves of whom he was deprived during the Civil War.
1885. Lady Brassey, The Trades, 285. At dawn we could see the high mountains of Hayti, the Franco-negroid portion of San Domingo.
