Frenchwoman
Americannoun
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Frenchwomen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Frenchwoman
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Taylor was sharper throughout, repeatedly beating the Frenchwoman to the punch before finishing with one final burst of combinations as the crowd rose to its feet.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
An engineer by training and a former test pilot, Adenot became in February the second Frenchwoman in history to fly into space, after pioneer Claudie Haignere.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A Frenchwoman had won the Eurovision song contest on British soil—narrowly beating the U.K. entrant, which was titled, with pitch-perfect national self-awareness, “Rock Bottom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Eleven of the 16 victims were foreign nationals, with three UK citizens, two South Koreans, two Canadians, one Frenchwoman, one Swiss, one American, and one Ukrainian identified among the dead.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
A copy was given me by a Frenchwoman I trained with, just after she was brought back from the field late last year.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
With her critique of “Parisienne,” Pfeiffer is doing something close to the opposite: rejecting a label by which Frenchwomen have been homogenized and mainstreamed beyond recognition.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2019
The film historian David Shipman noted those qualities when he wrote, “It is always an unpleasant surprise to all young men when they first go to France that all Frenchwomen are not like Danielle Darrieux.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2017
At any given time, 80% of Frenchwomen are thought to be on a diet.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2017
In another quarterfinal, Pliskova meets No. 28 Caroline Garcia, a 6-2, 6-4 winner against Alize Cornet in a match between two Frenchwomen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2017
There were many Polish civilians here and a few Frenchwomen as well.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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