Definition of Frenching

1. Verb. (present participle of French) ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of french) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frenching

1. french [v] - See also: french

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenching

frena
frenal
french
french-fried potatoes
french-fry
french fries
french letter
french letters
french pressure cell
frenched
frenches
frenchification
frenchified
frenchifies
frenchifying
frenching (current term)
frenchise
frenchises
frenectomies
frenectomy
frenemies
frenemy
frenetic
frenetical
frenetically
freneticism
freneticisms
frenetick
frenetics
frenne

Literary usage of Frenching

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

1. The art of boot and shoemaking by John Bedford Leno (1885)
"In the best work the frenching extended a full quarter of an inch, ... When frenching was confined to the inside waist, it was usual to leave it till the ..."

2. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1902)
"frenching " OF TOBACCO. In the August crop returns one of our correspondents referred to the "frenching" of some tobacco that he was growing. ..."

3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1876)
"frenching" was-very common, and the cutting was necessarily done iu many instances before maturity, greatly deteriorating the quality. ..."

4. The Horticultural review and botanical magazine (1852)
"... which, in Kentucky, is called " frenching " ; perhaps from the ancestral prejudice that all things excellent were derived from the English, ..."

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