gin and French
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From the use of French as a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as being usually drier than Italian vermouth.
Noun edit
gin and French (plural gin and Frenches or gins and French or gins and Frenches)
- A cocktail of gin and dry vermouth.
- 1930, Ethel Mannin, Confessions & Impressions, page 177:
- Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him.
References edit
- Fowler's Modern English Usage, s.v. "plural anomalies".