FRENCHWOMAN

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• FRENCHWOMAN (noun)
  The noun FRENCHWOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a person of French nationality

  Familiarity information: FRENCHWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• FRENCHWOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of French nationality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman

Hypernyms ("Frenchwoman" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Frenchwoman"):

frog; Gaul (a person of French descent)

Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)

Breton (a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language))

Savoyard (a resident of Savoy)

Angevin; Angevine (a resident of Anjou)

Norman (an inhabitant of Normandy)

Holonyms ("Frenchwoman" is a member of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

It seems that Tina is the child of the Frenchwoman who does the fine ironing in the laundry here.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If you can persuade Henry to marry, you must have the address of a Frenchwoman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But he has already recovered his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a lively pretty Frenchwoman, Madame Tavernier.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Esther was a Frenchwoman, who had lived with 'Madame', as she called her mistress, for many years, and who rather tyrannized over the old lady, who could not get along without her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I didn't think you'd been a very bad boy, but I fancied you might have wasted money at that wicked Baden-Baden, lost your heart to some charming Frenchwoman with a husband, or got into some of the scrapes that young men seem to consider a necessary part of a foreign tour.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

During one of her play hours she wrote out the important document as well as she could, with some help from Esther as to certain legal terms, and when the good-natured Frenchwoman had signed her name, Amy felt relieved and laid it by to show Laurie, whom she wanted as a second witness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She listened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that Tom Brown was a brick, regardless of the improper form of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle tank, she went with an alacrity which caused Mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bearlike but affectionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)