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adjective
Frisian  adj.  Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Frisian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Batavians, upon the north, dwelt the great Frisian family, occupying the regions between the Rhine and Ems, The Zuyder Zee and the Dollart, both caused by the terrific inundations of the thirteenth century and not existing at this period, did not then interpose ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... delightful flavor of ancient mystery as in the old chronicles which tell of these people? Besides the Sagas there are the voyages of long-ago-forgotten navigators—Arthur himself, the Venetian brothers Nicolo and Antonio Zeni, King Zichmni, divers Frisian fishermen. These old records, coffee-colored with age and frail as skeleton leaves, are yet to be found in certain libraries, and surely would tempt any one with a soul above newspapers. In them you shall hear how these voyagers, in their poor barkentines of from ten to two hundred ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various



Words linked to "Frisian" :   Frisian Islands, Frisia, West Germanic language, Friesland, West Germanic, Dutch people, Old Frisian, Dutch



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