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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from French, from Old French Franceise (Modern French Françoise), fem. of Franceis (see Francis).
Wikipedia
Frances is a 1982 American biographical film starring Jessica Lange as actress Frances Farmer. Kim Stanley and Sam Shepard appeared in supporting roles.
The film chronicles Farmer's life from 1930s high school student, her short lived film career in the 1930s, her 1940s institutionalization for alleged mental illness and her 1950s deinstitutionalization and appearance on This Is Your Life. Upon its release, the film was advertised as a purportedly true account of Farmer's life but the script was largely fictional and sensationalized. In particular, the film depicts Farmer as having been lobotomized; this is reputed to have never happened.
Frances was a New Zealand thoroughbred racemare foaled in 1942 by Bulandshar (GB) out of Trivet (NZ). She won a number of major races including the 1948 Auckland Cup.
Frances is a given name, the feminine version of Francis. Another version of the name is Francine.
It can also mean:
A number of sailing ships have been named Frances:
- Frances, a 368-ton whaler built in 1824.
- Frances, a schooner wrecked in 1837.
- Frances (1839), a cutter built in 1839, that was wrecked in 1840 upon Neptune Island, South Australia.
- Frances, a 332-ton sailing ship, that transported passengers from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1841.
- Frances, a sailing ship that carried one convict to Western Australia from Madras in 1859.
Frances (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) who was active in the 1810s. He is recorded in one match in 1811, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0.
Frances is a given name, the feminine version of Francis.
Frances may refer to:
Sophie Frances Cooke (born 27 June 1993), better known as Frances, is a singer-songwriter originally from Newbury, Berkshire, England.
Usage examples of "frances".
Amanda and Franceses, were her bridesmaids and were charming in blue taffeta gowns, wearing wreaths of honeysuckle in their hair.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Ernestine Rose, George Sand, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and Margaret Fuller, its formal birthday is July 19, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York.
Pity seized on Frances Freeland for these little derelicts, whose heads and pinafores and faces were so clean.
Sensing that whatever was amiss worsened when Greywolf came home, Frances wished time would go backward.
Frances Yates even goes on to speculate, daringly, that the lost Globe Theatre of Shakespeare was actually built to the design of a real memory theatre.
It had been some time since the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, but the adventure remained etched in my mind.
Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895 - or CHAPTER "Movel" bawled the drill corporal.
What with actual suffocation, and what with the poisonous fumes of the chloro form, the Lady Frances seemed to have passed the last point of recall.
Having regard to the period, and to the alchemistic nature of the goods that composed so much of Anne's stock-in-trade at the sign of the Golden Distaff, in Paternoster Row, it may be conjectured that the love-lorn Frances had thoughts of a philtre.
Stephen Maturin had dined with the ladies of Mapes, Mrs Williams, Sophia, Cecilia and Frances - traces of brown windsor soup, codfish, pigeon pie, and baked custard could be seen on his neck-cloth, his snuff-coloured waistcoat and his drab breeches, for he was an untidy eater and he had lost his napkin before the first remove, in spite of Sophia's efforts at preserving it - and now he was sitting on one side of the fire drinking tea, white Sophia toasted him crumpets on the other, leaning forward over the pink and silver glow with particular attention neither to scorch the crumpet by holding it too close nor to parch it by holding it too .
Frances had shown up in James Robert’s wake, to hear the general reports, and JR listened on the edges, aware of Bucklin having moved up near him.
Frances chose concrete block to dissuade termites, carpenter ants, and gophers.
Roger and Frances see a streak of light blue - a length of xylar climbing rope, hanging free from a rust-pitted piton.
I must here mention my personal attachment for descendant Julie Couper Beziat, who, like Frances Daugherty, still has never met either Jo or Ann --but will one day--and especially Jo's husband, Robert Cauthorn, himself knowledgeable and admirably patient with my many requests to call Jo in from her mysterious work on the compost pile in their yard.
Potter and Dick Blair got Frances endorsed by the Civic League-the League would endorse a giant panda against a Tully man.