FRANGIPANI

(fran-ji-pa’né), the name of an illustrious Roman family whose history dates from A.D. 1014. The name is said to have been derived from the generosity of the family, who distributed bread during a famine in Rome.—Frangipani is also the name of a perfume invented by the Marquis Frangipani, Maréchal des Armées of Louis XIII of France. It was a powder composed of every spice then known, with the addition of ground orris-root and musk. It is now @ perfume prepared from, or imitating F (4/4) f