frankfurter n. A small cooked sausage of beef or beef and pork, usually 5 to 6 inches, sometimes as long as 12 inches in length; called also frankforter, frankfort, frankfurt. It is commonly eaten on a roll, called a hot dog bun.
... from our view-point and there are many other peculiarities that are equally strange to us. But it may be wholesome for us to remember that some of our customs impress the Chinese no less oddly. The Frankfurter Zeitung, Germany, prints the following from a Chinese who had seen much of the Europeans and Americans ... — An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN
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