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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.
Category relationships: Second World War, World War 2, World War Ii
Generic synonyms: Front, Movement, Social Movement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fighting French
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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