Frenchwise

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English

Etymology

From French +‎ -wise.

Adverb

Frenchwise (not comparable)

  1. In the French manner or style.
    • 1866, Edward Deacon Girdlestone, Memory Helped, page 11:
      [] and in the sixth line “Re” must be pronounced Frenchwise, as if it were “Er.”
    • 1937, Claude McKay, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, A Long Way from Home, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, published 2007, page 200:
      But toward the end of the evening, when we all began kissing one another on both cheeks, Frenchwise, bidding Lucien a last farewell, a sailor started singing the “Internationale.”