Frenchily

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adverb

In an exaggeratedly French manner.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adverbFrenchily (comparative more Frenchily, superlative most Frenchily)

comparative more Frenchily · superlative most Frenchily

  1. In an exaggeratedly French manner.

    Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek, he bowed himself almost double.

    c. 1930, Walter de la Mare, The Orgy
    1 more example

    French grenadiers stood as sentinels, the old gentlemen town councillors had put on new faces, and donned their Sunday coats and looked at each other Frenchily, and said "Bon jour!"

    1882, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel, page 181

Origin

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