Frenchly
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Frenchly (comparative more Frenchly, superlative most Frenchly)
- (obsolete) French. [16th–17th c.]
- 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter XLVIII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 517:
- As their bodily exerciſe was Frenchly, ſo their vvits activity was alſo; for they uſed to be pleaſant and facetious in French focus.
Adverb edit
Frenchly (comparative more Frenchly, superlative most Frenchly)
- In the manner of the French or their language. [from 16th c.]
- 1912, John Mackinnon Robertson, The evolution of states:
- Van Kampen, who anticipated Motley in disparaging the Walloons as being Frenchly fickle...
- 1916, Ethel Sidgwick, Hatchways:
- He thought it indecorous to have a young and pretty girl packing with him in his room. He was thinking so Frenchly, that it even seemed to him Bess should not have proposed it.
- 1937, Marguerite Farlee Bayliss, Bolinvar:
- I realized how unlike his true self he had been; he was Frenchly warm today, and Frenchly open and reasonable.
Translations edit
In the manner of the French or their tongue
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