franion

plural franions

1. obsoleteA cheerful, frivolous person, a silly man; a loose woman.

   1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 12-14, […] as I am frollicke franion, never in all my life was I so dead slaine.

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   First by her side did sitt the bold Sansloy, Fitt mate for such a mincing mineon, Who in her loosenesse tooke exceeding ioy; Might not be found a francker franion, Of her leawd parts to make companion:

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 215

   Fine merry franions, Wanton companions, My days are ev’n banyans With thinking upon ye;

   1830, Charles Lamb, “Going or Gone”, in Album Verses, with a few others, London: Edward Moxon, page 75