Etymology

Villefranche

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Today it means: Several settlements in France, mostly with affixes. Full definition →

French Villefranche
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromVillefranche
  2. English todayVillefranche

From French Villefranche (literally “Freetown”), from ville (“town, city”) + franche, feminine singular of franc (“free”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.