Definitions

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

Etymologies

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French +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Her mother met me at the door, looking Frenchly elegant in navy cashmere and gray wool pants.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • Her mother met me at the door, looking Frenchly elegant in navy cashmere and gray wool pants.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • Her mother met me at the door, looking Frenchly elegant in navy cashmere and gray wool pants.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • I pictured myself flitting Frenchly from boucherie to épicier to boulangerie, then fastening on an apron and whisking up an intimate meal in the tiny galley kitchen.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • I pictured myself flitting Frenchly from boucherie to épicier to boulangerie, then fastening on an apron and whisking up an intimate meal in the tiny galley kitchen.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • I pictured myself flitting Frenchly from boucherie to épicier to boulangerie, then fastening on an apron and whisking up an intimate meal in the tiny galley kitchen.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • ˜Frenchly™, while others have forms of life that are expressed ˜Koreanly™ or ¦ ˜Icelandicly™

    Nationalism Miscevic, Nenad 2005

  • Betty thought so too, when she had seen the "rooms exquisite on the first" -- neat, bare, well-scrubbed rooms with red-tiled floors, scanty rugs and Frenchly varnished furniture -- the garden room too, with big open hearth and no furniture but wicker chairs and tables.

    The Incomplete Amorist 1891

  • Motorbikes, Zoolander pouts, a desert… He and his manager Sid, who sits sipping a cappuccino Frenchly as we talk, have, however, just had a meeting with Max Martin who, they say, will work with them on Baptiste's second album.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Upon graduation, he moves to London to share a house with close friend Henry, the son of a newspaper man, and on/off girlfriend Vero, who's both sexily French and Frenchly impossible.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Patrick Neate 2010

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