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French       [french] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
–noun
2.the people of France and their direct descendants.
3.a Romance language spoken in France, parts of Belgium and Switzerland, and in areas colonized after 1500 by France. Abbreviation: F
–verb (used with object)
4.(often lowercase) to prepare (food) according to a French method.
5.(often lowercase) to cut (snap beans) into slivers or thin strips before cooking.
6.(often lowercase) to trim the meat from the end of (a rib chop).
7.(often lowercase) to prepare (meat) for cooking by slicing it into strips and pounding.
8.Slang. to short-sheet (a bed).
9.(often lowercase) Slang: Vulgar. to give oral stimulation of the penis or vulva.
[Origin: bef. 1150; ME Frensh, French, OE Frenc(i)sc. See Frank, -ish1]

—Related forms
Frenchness, noun
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French       [french] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Alice (“Octave Thanet”), 1850–1934, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2.Daniel Chester, 1850–1931, U.S. sculptor.
3.Sir John Den·ton Pink·stone       [den-tn pingk-stohn, -stuhn] Pronunciation Key, 1st Earl of Ypres, 1852–1925, English field marshal in World War I.
4.Marilyn, born 1929, U.S. novelist and nonfiction writer.
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french       (frěnch)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   frenched, french·ing, french·es
  1. To cut (green beans, for example) into thin strips before cooking.
  2. To trim fat or bone from (a chop, for example).
  3. or French
    1. Slang To give a French kiss to.
    2. Vulgar Slang To perform oral sex on.


[From French.]

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French       (frěnch)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of France or its people or culture.
  2. Of or relating to the French language.

n.  
  1. The Romance language of France, parts of Switzerland and Belgium, and other countries formerly under French influence or control.
  2. (used with a pl. verb) The people of France.
  3. Slang Coarse or vulgar language: Pardon my French.


[Middle English, from Old English frencisc, Frankish, from Franca, Frank; see Frank.]

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French, Daniel Chester 1850-1931.  
American sculptor whose many public statues include the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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French 
O.E. frencisc "of the Franks" (see frank). Euphemistic meaning "bad language" (pardon my French) is from 1895. Used in many combination-words, often dealing with food or sex. French fries is 1918 Amer.Eng., from French fried potatoes (1894, first attested in O.Henry); French dressing first recorded 1900; French toast is from 1660. French letter "condom" (c.1856), French (v.) "perform oral sex on" (c.1917) and French kiss (1923) all probably stem from the Anglo-Saxon equation of Gallic culture and sexual sophistication, a sense first recorded 1749 in French novel. To take French leave, "depart without telling the host," is 1771, from a social custom then prevalent. However, in France this is said to be called filer à l'anglaise, lit. "to take English leave."

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french

adjective
1. of or pertaining to France or the people of France; "French cooking"; "a Gallic shrug" 

noun
1. the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France 
2. the people of France 
3. United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931) 

verb
1. cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking; "French the potatoes" 

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French Camp, CA (CDP, FIPS 26028) Location: 37.88282 N, 121.27873 W
Population (1990): 3018 (543 housing units)
Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 95231

French Camp, MS (village, FIPS 26020) Location: 33.29209 N, 89.39848 W
Population (1990): 320 (79 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 39745

French Gulch, CA Zip code(s): 96033

French Lick, IN (town, FIPS 25972) Location: 38.54723 N, 86.62017 W
Population (1990): 2087 (948 housing units)
Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 47432

French Settlemen, LA Zip code(s): 70733

French Village, MO Zip code(s): 63036

French Island, WI (CDP, FIPS 27875) Location: 43.85830 N, 91.26030 W
Population (1990): 4478 (1731 housing units)
Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)

French Settlement, LA (village, FIPS 27435) Location: 30.31146 N, 90.80330 W
Population (1990): 829 (359 housing units)
Area: 7.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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French

French\ (fr[e^]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[,c]ois, F. fran[,c]ais. See Frank, a., and cf. Frankish.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).

French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment.

French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window.

French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk.

French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear.

French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely.

French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle.

French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse.

French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts.

French pie [French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo["o]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); -- called also wood pie.

French polish. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above.

French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure.

French red rouge.

French rice, amelcorn.

French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope.

French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. --Ure.

French window. See under Window.

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French

French\, n. 1. The language spoken in France.

2. Collectively, the people of France.

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