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Fries

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈfɹiːz//

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

  2. 2

    A town in Virginia.

Etymology

The town was named after a prominent cotton-mill owner, Francis Henry Fries. The surname is converged from both Friesland and French friche (“fallow land”), found in Swiss French.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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