Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who is a native or inhabitant of France.
- noun A woman of French ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman of the French nation.
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- noun A
French woman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of French nationality
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Examples
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How about this one, concerning a certain Frenchwoman's practical joke.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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How about this one, concerning a certain Frenchwoman's practical joke.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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How about this one, concerning a certain Frenchwoman's practical joke.
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The 30-year-old Frenchwoman is playing the best tennis of her career, five years after she won the French Open and 10 years after her victory at the Australian.
USATODAY.com - Kim Clijsters powers past Pierce for U.S. Open crown 2005
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But if the Frenchwoman was a good walker, Edith Talbot was a better one, and now that she no longer feared notice -- for she draped the large shawl as elegantly about her shoulders as any woman in Marseilles -- she decided to adopt a little strategy.
The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective Louis Tracy 1895
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"What women!" said Vronsky, recalling the Frenchwoman and the actress with whom the two men he had mentioned were connected.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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I have a beautiful opening in some memoranda I have made of the early life of a Frenchwoman, that is, up to the age of seventeen, when she is cast adrift upon the world, and I would work it all up together.
Valerie Frederick Marryat 1820
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said Vronsky, recalling the Frenchwoman and the actress with whom the two men he had mentioned were connected.
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There is always a something -- something indescribable -- about the Frenchwoman which is marked and distinctive, and which the English-bred woman can never actually imitate.
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895
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He called a Frenchwoman all the world over, Madamasel — that wor the name on ’em all.
Uncle Silas 2003
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