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Webster 1913 Edition

Lingua Franca

Lin′gua Fran′ca

(lĭṉ′gwȧ frăṉ′kȧ)

Noun.

[It., prop., language of the Franks.]

1.

The commercial language of the Levant, – a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.