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Française en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French Française.

Meanings

1. (rare) A Frenchwoman.
   • In August, Bob Middleton and his friend Anne Jacobs celebrated his son Rob’s first wedding anniversary in Paris. Rob married a Française. 1989 November 8, Richard K. Paynter, “Class Notes”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Princeton University Press, →ISSN, page 30, column 2:
   • As Craig said, having looked over the françaises^([sic]) he could understand why the frogs didn’t want the Germans to get Paris. 1938, James Laughlin IV, The River (New Directions Pamphlets; 3), New Directions:
   • So many of the Françaises marry you Americans that in twenty years—pouf!—their children will overrun France and it will be France no longer. 1925, The American Legion Weekly, volume 7, page 19:
   • The Françaises were considerably younger than the westerners; 90% rather than 77% of them were under the age of thirty. 1997, Leslie Choquette, “The Age of Adventure in an Age of Expansion”, in Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, part I (Modernity), page 158:
   • The French love of scent continues, with most Françaises regularly using it. 2022, Aloïs Guinut, “Inside Parisian Style”, in The Little Book of Paris Style, Welbeck, →ISBN, page 23:
   • Diana Dunningham-Chapotin is a New Zealander by birth, an American by adoption, and a Française by residence (as she likes to be near her husband). 2001, The Quest, volume 89/90, Theosophical Society in America, page 17:
   • The baron’s imaginings, nonetheless, bring difference back (the unknown) into the familiar space of sameness by measuring the beauty of the “femmes sauvages” against familiar French frames of reference: the Françaises. 1999, T[racy] Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Representing Sarah—Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Vénus hottentote, ou haine aux Françaises”, in Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 35:

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