Definition of Fighting French

1. Noun. A French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic.

Exact synonyms: Free French
Category relationships: Second World War, World War 2, World War Ii
Generic synonyms: Front, Movement, Social Movement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fighting French

Fido
Fiedler
Fiedler's myocarditis
Field
Field's rapid stain
Fielding
Fielding's membrane
Fields
Fiessinger-Leroy-Reiter syndrome
Fife
Fifer
Fifth
Fifth Amendment
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Crusade
Fighting French (current term)
Fighting Joe Hooker
Figueira's syndrome
Fiji
Fiji Hindi
Fiji Islands
Fiji dollar
Fijian
Fijian Hindi
Fijians
Fijis
Fil-
Fil-Am
Filago germanica
Filariicae

Literary usage of Fighting French

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1901)
"... Literati—Prize Fighting—French and English Soldiers—Duelling—Change of Manners—Landed and trading Interests—Loral's ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... made a brave Retreat, fighting French. and marching Day and Night, till they came to Salamis, where, finding Dublin, neither King or Captain Generall, ..."

3. Macariae Excidium, Or, The Destruction of Cyprus: Being a Secret History of by Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society (1850)
"... made a brave Retreat, fighting French, and marching Day and Night, till they came to Salamis, where, finding Dublin, neither King or Captain Generall, ..."

4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... after fierce fighting ; French troops have been landed at Sedd-el-Bahr, and are fighting around the Turkish positions at ..."

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