franklins in English
noun
1
a landowner of free but not noble birth in the 14th and 15th centuries in England.
Hoping to gain more vassals, they put the franklins - free landowners not of the noble class - in a difficult and dangerous position.
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1. 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale V.ii.155 Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let Boors and franklins say it