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- noun Plural form of
Frenchism .
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Examples
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(French le mort); all two (French tous les deux) − and all our reflexives: pick yourself up, carry yourself, move yourself, kill yourself out − few of us realise, I say, that there we have English words used in conspicuously French patterns, which is what the term Frenchisms is intended to convey.
Stabroek News 2009
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(French le mort); all two (French tous les deux) − and all our reflexives: pick yourself up, carry yourself, move yourself, kill yourself out − few of us realise, I say, that there we have English words used in conspicuously French patterns, which is what the term Frenchisms is intended to convey.
Stabroek News 2009
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My husband has little different ways of looking at things and I call them "Frenchisms" (like, he must have gotten sick because he did not have a scarf on!!!)
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My husband has little different ways of looking at things and I call them "Frenchisms" like, he must have gotten sick because he did not have a scarf on!
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It is very amusing, though very full of Frenchisms; and though an abridgment, often so minute as to tell you when the
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Other Veber ideas have translated rather naturally in past American remakes (consider "Pure Luck," "Three Fugitives" and "The Man With One Red Shoe"), but "The Dinner Game" features a number of culturally specific Frenchisms, including fear of tax audits and the ultimate faux pas of allowing one's wife to meet one's mistress.
Variety.com 2010
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Other Veber ideas have translated rather naturally in past American remakes (consider "Pure Luck," "Three Fugitives" and "The Man With One Red Shoe"), but "The Dinner Game" features a number of culturally specific Frenchisms, including fear of tax audits and the ultimate faux pas of allowing one's wife to meet one's mistress.
Variety.com 2010
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Without discussing history and racial proportions, let us for the sake of simplicity and quickness, classify the words we shall discuss in order of bulk under the headings: Localisms, Africanisms, Frenchisms, Americanisms,
Stabroek News 2009
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Without discussing history and racial proportions, let us for the sake of simplicity and quickness, classify the words we shall discuss in order of bulk under the headings: Localisms, Africanisms, Frenchisms, Americanisms,
Stabroek News 2009
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