The Only Use of
lingua franca
in
Gulliver's Travels
- There were several of his priests and lawyers present (as I conjectured by their habits), who were commanded to address themselves to me; and I spoke to them in as many languages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(lingua franca) a common language used by speakers of different languages