Meaning of Frenchesque | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“The Chalon is a rock solid dinging pleasure during lunch and dinner, with an exquisite setting and full course Frenchesque food complete with fine wines and sparkling table cloths.”

“It’s pretty hard to get these real facts out of the lyric, so it’s probably a pretty good dose of Paris intellectual . . . the melody even sounds Frenchesque . . . (Whew! Weird word!)”

“Their nearest neighbor, a sports promoter, occupies a four-story, $20 million Frenchesque chateau.”

“But I know what you’re going to ask. What about that certain Frenchesque jolt of sex appeal? If Leslie Bennetts met me at the moment there would be not so much a jolt, more that slightly repulsive tingle you get from a spent battery, the sort that you find in an old torch which is not only dead, but has leaked and corroded everything around it.”

“With its underground chic and clubby comfort, this is a bar scene for grown-ups, complete with terrific Frenchesque food and edgy live jazz.”

“You can’t have a crappy salad with bits of egg and human hair in at Chez A La Pierre’s Frenchesque Restaurant at Manchester International and decide that next time you might opt for a Chinese instead because there isn’t a Chinese.”

“Stade Francais, missing an entire back line, still suffer from the faults of French teams in that they are maddeningly inconsistent. […] They were Frenchesque in their invention against Clermont-Auvergne the previous week, yet plain old plodders for much of this encounter.”

“Eric is a native French speaker. His English is Frenchesque. When I received the recipes, there was still some translation work to be done. A robot coupe? Vers in a bowl?”

“I’d also noticed that Imogen often made spelling mistakes. I don’t mean British spelling—those Frenchesque -re endings for words like center and saltpeter; […]”

““You’re Nicola, right? Val’s brother.” I jerked in surprise at the very fine man attached to the deep Frenchesque accent and suddenly sitting on the stool next to me.”

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