Frenchiness

English

Etymology

Frenchy +‎ -ness

Noun

Frenchiness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being or seeming characteristically French.
    • 1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, The Love Affairs of Pixie, The Religious Tract Society, page 13:
      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.
    • 2011, Diana K. Schwam, Frommer's New Orleans 2011‎, Wiley, →ISBN:
      The result is a menu of more arty playfulness than many other local establishments, still wearing its Frenchiness on its sleeve.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Frenchiness.
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