Meanings
adverbFrenchwise (not comparable)
- not comparableIn the French manner or style.
[…] and in the sixth line “Re” must be pronounced Frenchwise, as if it were “Er.”
1866, Edward Deacon Girdlestone, Memory Helped, page 111 more example
But toward the end of the evening, when we all began kissing one another on both cheeks, Frenchwise, bidding Lucien a last farewell, a sailor started singing the “Internationale.”
1937, Claude McKay, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, A Long Way from Home, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, published 2007, page 200
Origin
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Frenchwise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frenchwise
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“Frenchwise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frenchwise. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Frenchwise,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frenchwise.
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