Frenchily

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Frenchy +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

Frenchily (comparative more Frenchily, superlative most Frenchily)

  1. In an exaggeratedly French manner.
    • 1882, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel, page 181:
      French grenadiers stood as sentinels, the old gentlemen town councillors had put on new faces, and donned their Sunday coats and looked at each other Frenchily, and said "Bon jour!"
    • c. 1930, Walter de la Mare, The Orgy‎[1]:
      Frenchily dark and Frenchily sleek, he bowed himself almost double.
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