Meanings
comparative more Frenchily · superlative most Frenchily
- In an exaggeratedly French manner.
Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek, he bowed himself almost double.
c. 1930, Walter de la Mare, The Orgy1 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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