The solemn, silent, almost heavy manner of the one so commingled with the gesticulating Frenchiness and vivacity of the other, that one unfamiliar with native Canadian life would find it difficult to determine her nationality.
Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced.
1914 — Mary S. Watts, The Rise of Jennie Cushing, The Macmillan Company (1915), page 217:
What he really said to himself in honest and forcible and peculiarly American language was that the young fellow didn't look like a sissy anyhow, and the Frenchiness would probably wear off of him after a while.
"There is an awe about Frenchiness in food which is terribly precious and has kept American food from being as good as it could be," says Poppy Cannon, the leader of the revolutionaries.
1989 — Ernestine Sewell Linck & Joyce Gibson Roach, Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods, Texas Christian University Press (1989), →ISBN, page 9:
Returning by way of Houston and the low prairies, Olmsted found food much to his liking: venison and beef in ragout, hominy, sweet milk, wheat bread, modified by a soupçon of Frenchiness.
Now, at forty-seven, heavier, stronger, he exuded manliness, "Frenchiness," and class.
2011 — Donovan Hohn, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, Viking (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
What left the biggest impression wasn't the beauty of Isabelle, though that left an impression, nor her exotic Frenchiness.
2011 — Diana K. Schwam, Frommer's New Orleans 2011, Wiley (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
The result is a menu of more arty playfulness than many other local establishments, still wearing its Frenchiness on its sleeve.