Frenchly

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English

Etymology

From French +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛn(t)ʃli/
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Adjective

Frenchly (comparative more Frenchly, superlative most Frenchly)

  1. (obsolete) French.
    • 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 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

Frenchly (comparative more Frenchly, superlative most Frenchly)

  1. In the manner of the French or their language.
    • 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.

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