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French   /frɛntʃ/   Listen
adjective
French  adj.  Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment.
French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window.
French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk.
French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear.
French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely.
French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); called also garland honeysuckle.
French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; called in France cor de chasse.
French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts.
French pie (Zool.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); called also wood pie.
French polish.
(a)
A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added.
(b)
The glossy surface produced by the application of the above.
French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants.
French red rouge.
French rice, amelcorn.
French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope.
French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; called also plum tub.
French window. See under Window.



proper noun
French  n.  
1.
The language spoken in France.
2.
Collectively, the people of France.






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... dwelling on Corcoran Street lived the attractive wife of Monsieur Grimaud de Caux, Chancelier of the French legation, who left unfading memories behind her. During our many delightful chats I was much interested in the accounts of her early life and experiences in Ireland, and I especially recall many things she told me concerning the members of ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... most illustrious houses, but who now lived at Paris. She had in her time taken an active part in Italian politics, and had sacrificed to the cause to which she was devoted the larger part of a large fortune. What had been spared, however, permitted her to live in the French capital with elegance, if not with splendor; and her saloon was the gathering roof, in Paris, of almost every one who was celebrated for genius or accomplishments. Though reputed to be haughty and capricious, she entertained for Theodora an even passionate ...
— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli

... always useful. We are an extremely social College, and the—the friction of mind with mind, you know—it is the best education possible for a man—I'm sure it is—much better than poring over Plato. Then I found so many things in which I was deficient. French fiction, for example; and I knew so very little about Art—oh! I have passed a most ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... when at Khartoum, issue edicts right and left; as if he could act without subaltern officers, money, stores, gold, etc.; as if he were an homme drapeau, and had an old army out there ready to troop round him, as the French veterans ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... Vane's Company, till Vane was turned out for not fighting the French Man-of-War, and Rackham put in Captain in his place, which happened about the 24th day of November, 1718. His first cruise was among the Caribbe Islands, where he took and plundered several vessels. Afterwards, to the windward ...
— Pirates • Anonymous


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