French-style
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I order French-style beef cubes, which are chunks of meat seasoned with spices like allspice and other ingredients you would find in French food with a Vietnamese influence.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2025
Or could Germany's economic challenge be supplemented by a French-style ungovernable political impasse?
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
"Sometimes a French-style apple tarte can be kind of dry, which this was not. The apple flavor is good, like they didn't use the absolute cheapest apples. The crust tastes of real butter."
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022
It was a Pan Am ticket in a bone china cup, with flavors that included French-style Café Au Lait, Swiss Mocha and Café Vienna.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2022
Miguel, Alba, and her brother stopped before a French-style house that looked like a cream cake, with cherubs carved along the friezes.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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