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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.

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  • noun a person of French nationality

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Examples

  • How about this one, concerning a certain Frenchwoman's practical joke.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • How about this one, concerning a certain Frenchwoman's practical joke.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • How about this one, concerning a certain Frenchwoman's practical joke.

    façonner - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • ’ said Vronsky, recalling the Frenchwoman and the actress with whom the two men he had mentioned were connected.

    Chapter XXI. Part III 1917

  • 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

  • He called a Frenchwoman all the world over, Madamasel — that wor the name on ’em all.

    Uncle Silas 2003

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