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fro

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fro  (fr)
adv.
Away; back: moving to and fro.
prep. Scots
From.
[Middle English, probably from Old Norse fr; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]
fro [frəʊ]
adv
back or from See to and fro
[from Old Norse frā; related to Old English fram from]
Translations
fro [frəʊ] ADV to and fro → de un lado para otro, de aquí para allá
fro [frəʊ] adv to and fro → avanti e indietro
to go to and fro between → fare la spola tra
fro [frəʊ] adv to and fro → avanti e indietro
to go to and fro between → fare la spola tra


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Now in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof.
The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
ON THE evening of New-Year's Day Grandfather was walking to and fro across the carpet, listening to the rain which beat hard against the curtained windows.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
(which I naturally assumed to be Women) interspersed with other Beings still smaller and of the nature of lustrous points -- all moving to and fro in one and the same Straight Line, and, as nearly as I could judge, with the same velocity.
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