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franked

frank \frank\ (fr[a^][ng]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. franked (fr[a^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. franking.]

  1. To send by public conveyance free of expense.
    --Dickens.

  2. To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.

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franked

vb. (en-past of: frank)

Usage examples of "franked".

As always, there was a letter from her father, but under it was another envelope franked in Johannesburg, and with a lift of pleasure she recognized her brother Michael's handwriting.

Isabella presumed that she was a local woman, until one morning she noticed amongst the mail in their postbox an envelope addressed to her that was stamped and franked in Havana, Cuba.

Rose Cohen, and the Queen's-head postage-stamps had been franked at Trafalgar Square post office.

Regularly another tiny box of leaf arrived when the last one was quite finished, accompanied by a friendly note - and all franked with the newest stamps from Unuk.

It was a fairly good-sized packet with twenty-five or thirty covers in it and all the envelopes, he saw, were franked with the same stamps - little yellow fellows that had no discernible markings on them - just squares of yellow paper, rather thick and rough.