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  • noun The state or quality of being or seeming characteristically French.

Etymologies

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Frenchy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • French you are, with a Frenchiness beyond dispute.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Also, a Colbert/Warner (pronounced war-nier to maintain the Frenchiness) ticket would be wonderfully ironic — a pair of liberal, sarcastic white males that look and dress like Republicans.

    A Colbert/Warner Ticket - TheCharlieWarnerReport 2007

  • The Frenchiness of his language apprised the spectators that they were on the wrong scent, and they demanded to know where Lieutenant Smith was.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • Frenchiness, which was evidently a symbol, and no more intended for a pretense of reality than the honestly false brown front that surmounted her competent, kindly Celtic face.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • French you are, with a Frenchiness beyond dispute.

    Chapter 2 1913

  • Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced.

    The Love Affairs of Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • "_Mais certainement, avec_ pleasure!" with such vivacity and Frenchiness of manner that she was forced into unwilling admiration.

    About Peggy Saville George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • The solemn, silent, almost heavy manner of the one so commingled with the gesticulating Frenchiness and vivacity of the other, that one unfamiliar with native Canadian life would find it difficult to determine her nationality.

    The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Frenchiness of it, or the tumble-down, picturesque old creole quarter, or the roses; I didn't suppose there were in the world so many roses; the town was just wreathed and smothered with them.

    Their Pilgrimage Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Frenchiness of it, or the tumble-down, picturesque old creole quarter, or the roses; I didn't suppose there were in the world so many roses; the town was just wreathed and smothered with them.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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