Definition of "Franco"

Franco¹

proper noun
1. A male given name from Italian or Spanish, equivalent to Frank or Francis.
2. A surname from Spanish.
  1. Francisco Franco, the long-ruling right-wing 20th century Spanish caudillo since the Spanish Civil War (1939–1975).

Franco²

noun
plural Francos
1. A French person.
  Quotations
  Other Franco-American journalists didn’t see it his way, notably the editor of the Jean-Baptiste a newspaper in Northampton, Massachusetts. A journalistic debate began on the merits of repatriation, some newspapers calling those Francos who returned to Québec traitors while other papers used the same epithet to describe those Francos who remained in New England.
  1979 May, Paul Paré, “A History of Franco-American Journalism”, in A Franco-American Overview, volume 1, page 241, column 1
  As will be demonstrated, it provided very good analytical material for reflection on the relationships between Anglos and Francos in Quebec. […] Firstly, the Francos of Quebec are perceived as being in general agreement on their collective name, which name others are also seen to recognize.
  1982, Gary Caldwell, Eric Waddell, editors, The English of Quebec: From Majority to Minority Status, pages 131 and 141
  Because of my earlier interest in ethnic relations in New England—e.g. the Anglos and Francos in New Hampshire and Maine (Khleif 1973)—and my familiarity with British community studies, I became interested in Welsh-English relations and did fieldwork on that subject in 1973–1974.
  1980, Bud B. Khleif, Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales, Mouton Publishers, page 327
  In my own case in the area of Mile-End (a mixed neighborhood of Jews, Greeks, Portuguese, Anglos, Francos), my back balcony (or more precisely, la galérie) is a mere foot and a half wide and joins me with my two neighbors, women with whom I often converse.
  1996, Elspeth Probyn, Outside Belongings, Routledge, page 4