Frenchesque

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1. alternativeAlternative form of French-esque.

   Their nearest neighbor, a sports promoter, occupies a four-story, $20 million Frenchesque chateau.

   1989 April 26, Michael Kilian, “Edifice complexes”, in Chicago Tribune, 142d year, number 116, Chicago, Ill., section 7, page 14

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   The Chalon is a rock solid dinging pleasure during lunch and dinner, with an exquisite setting and full course Frenchesque food complete with fine wines and sparkling table cloths.

   1973 May 4, Rosemary Wright, “Dining and entertainment with Rosemary Wright: Your dining out M.O. …what is it?”, in Daily News-Post, volume 64, number 203, Monrovia, Calif., page A 6

   It’s pretty hard to get these real facts out of the lyric, so it’s probably a pretty good dose of Paris intellectual . . . the melody even sounds Frenchesque . . . (Whew! Weird word!)

   1987, Mason Williams, “Saturday Night At the World”, in Classical Gas, Omaha, Neb.: American Gramaphone Records

   But I know what you’re going to ask. What about that certain Frenchesque jolt of sex appeal? If Leslie Bennetts met me at the moment there would be not so much a jolt, more that slightly repulsive tingle you get from a spent battery, the sort that you find in an old torch which is not only dead, but has leaked and corroded everything around it.

   1991, New Statesman Society, page 8, column 3

   With its underground chic and clubby comfort, this is a bar scene for grown-ups, complete with terrific Frenchesque food and edgy live jazz.

   2000 August, Terry Durack, Jill Dupleix, with Bruce Elder, The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2001, 16th edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Anne O’Donovan, →ISBN, page 130, column 1

   You can’t have a crappy salad with bits of egg and human hair in at Chez A La Pierre’s Frenchesque Restaurant at Manchester International and decide that next time you might opt for a Chinese instead because there isn’t a Chinese.

   2004, David Quantick, “[Leisure] Airport ‘Pubs’ and ‘Restaurants’”, in Grumpy Old Men: A Manual for the British Malcontent, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 66