2. Verb. (present participle of french) ¹
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Definition of Frenching
1. french [v] - See also: french
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenching
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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