Verb

Infinitive to french

Third person singular frenches

Simple past frenched

Past participle frenched

Present participle frenching

to french (third-person singular simple present frenches, present participle frenching, simple past and past participle frenched)

1. (transitive) To prepare food by cutting it into strips.

Derived terms

• frenched

French usually refers to:

• something of, from, or related to France.
• French people, inhabitants of France or people having family origins in France
• French language, a Romance language originating in what is now northern France

It may also refer to:

• People with the surname French
• The French, a band
• French catheter scale, a measurement system for the outer diameter of cylindrical medical instruments
• the French Defence, a chess opening
• French kiss

Quotes regarding French people

Sourced

• The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
  • Stein, Gertrude. Paris France. New York: Liveright, 1970. (p. 8)

• Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.
  • Stein, Gertrude. Paris France. New York: Liveright, 1970. (p. 56)

• Honour to the French!—They have taken good care of the two greatest needs of human society — of good eating and citizenly equality; they have made the greatest advances in cookery and in freedom..."
  • Heinrich Heine. Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel Ch. XXIX

Unsourced

• I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
  • Josephine Baker

• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
  • Honore de Balzac

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