Frenchman
Americannoun
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Frenchmen
plural
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a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
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a French ship.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Frenchman
before 1150; Middle English Frenshman, Old English Frencisc man. See French, man
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By lap seven, he was past Hadjar into third place after the Frenchman did not fight him.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Scotty's remains were discovered by teams from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Saskatchewan's Frenchman River Valley, one of North America's richest sites for dinosaur fossils.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The thieves had agreed to meet a Frenchman sent by Mr. Wittman to receive the art in exchange for $4.6 million in cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
On numerous occasions last season, Guardiola made clear he felt the Frenchman would be more effective staying between the lines, close to Erling Haaland.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
In some way such as this Guenever did come to love the Frenchman without losing her affection for Arthur.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Founded in 2016 by a trio of nerdy Frenchmen and named after their favorite emoji, the startup has grown into a vital pillar of the tech ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The first iteration of these new competitions took place in Athens in 1896, but Frenchmen and a French fascination with antiquity played a large role, and in 1900 and 1904, the Games moved to Paris.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Warburton picked four Irishmen, four Englishmen, four Frenchmen, two Italians and one Welshman, with Ford steering the attack from fly-half.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
The young woman heads north, knowing only that Frenchmen live there and she speaks enough of their language to make herself understood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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