"Lingua Franca" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1864, J.C. Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, section 22",
          "text": "...the Lingua Franca, or bastard Italian, spoken at Genoa, Trieste, Malta, Constantinople, Smyrna, Alexandria, and all Mediterranean seaport towns. The ingredients of this imported Cant are many. Its foundation is Italian, with a mixture of modern Greek, German, (from the Austrian ports,) Spanish, Turkish, and French.",
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          "text": "...tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.",
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        "Sabir, the Italian-based pidgin that served as a common language of Mediterranean trade around the 11th-19th centuries."
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