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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Apparently a poetical perversion of fremd.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A stranger.

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  • noun obsolete A stranger.

Etymologies

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Old English frenne, contracted from forrene foreign. See foreign (adjective).

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