Citations:Frenchiness

English citations of Frenchiness

Noun: "the state or quality of being or seeming characteristically French"

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• 1909 — Charles Garvice, At Love's Cost, Chapter IV:

  She gave a slight shrug to her straight, square shoulders. The gesture seemed charming to Stafford, in its girlish Frenchiness.

• 1913 — Corra Harris, In Search of a Husband, Doubleday, Page & Company (1913), page 262:

  Because sewing women come from a class where virtue and thrift predominate over the lace and frill Frenchiness of real sweetheart toggery.

• 1913 — E. Pauline Johnson, The Moccasin Maker, The Ryerson Press (1913), page 104:

  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.

• 1913 — Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, Book II, Chapter II:

  "French you are, with a Frenchiness beyond dispute."

• 1914 — Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, The Love Affairs of Pixie, The Religious Tract Society (1914), page 13:

  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.

• 1914 — Mary S. Watts, The Rise of Jennie Cushing, The Macmillan Company (1915), page 217:

  What he really said to himself in honest and forcible and peculiarly American language was that the young fellow didn't look like a sissy anyhow, and the Frenchiness would probably wear off of him after a while.

• 1968 — Nora Ephron, "Critics in the World of the Rising Souffle (Or Is It the Rising Meringue?)", New York Magazine, 30 September 1968:

  "There is an awe about Frenchiness in food which is terribly precious and has kept American food from being as good as it could be," says Poppy Cannon, the leader of the revolutionaries.

• 1989 — Ernestine Sewell Linck & Joyce Gibson Roach, Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods, Texas Christian University Press (1989), →ISBN, page 9:

  Returning by way of Houston and the low prairies, Olmsted found food much to his liking: venison and beef in ragout, hominy, sweet milk, wheat bread, modified by a soupçon of Frenchiness.

• 2007 — Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key, St. Martin's Press (2008), →ISBN, page 15:

  Now, at forty-seven, heavier, stronger, he exuded manliness, "Frenchiness," and class.

• 2011 — Donovan Hohn, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, Viking (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  What left the biggest impression wasn't the beauty of Isabelle, though that left an impression, nor her exotic Frenchiness.

• 2011 — Diana K. Schwam, Frommer's New Orleans 2011, Wiley (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  The result is a menu of more arty playfulness than many other local establishments, still wearing its Frenchiness on its sleeve.