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French
[french] 
–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. |
French
[french] –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] , 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) tr.v. frenched, french·ing, french·es
[From French.] |
| French (frěnch) adj.
[Middle English, from Old English frencisc, Frankish, from Franca, Frank; see Frank.] |
| 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
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.French
French\, n. 1. The language spoken in France. 2. Collectively, the people of France.
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Language Translation for : french
Spanish:
patatas fritas,
German:
Pommes frites(pl.),
Japanese:
フランスの
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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: French
Pronunciation: 'french
Function: noun
Inflected Form: pl French
: a unit of measure equal to one-third millimeter usedin measuring the outside diameter of a tubular instrument (as a catheter or sound) inserted into a bodily cavity
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