Obs. rare. [? Short for FRANKINCENSE; cf. FRANCE.]

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14[?].  Ephyphanye, in Tundale’s Vis., 110.

        And franke also as clerkis can devyse
Ordeyned ys in conclusyon
To God only to make sacryfyse
With contrite hart and devocion.

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1502.  Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 234. Spycery … Ffrankke.

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