Frenchwoman
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Origin of Frenchwoman
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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
The Frenchwoman arrived prepared with her mobile phone so she could show a replay of the incident as she gave a furious interview to BBC Two.
From BBC ● Apr. 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
The Frenchwoman has now beaten three seeded players en route to the last four, where she will meet world number two Coco Gauff.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
“But yes. You think, do you not, that I should have a smart Frenchwoman to attend to my toilet?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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
Two decades earlier, in 1971, 343 well-known Frenchwomen like Catherine Deneuve and Simone de Beauvoir had signed the “Manifesto of the 343” testifying that they’d had abortions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2018
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
There were many Polish civilians here and a few Frenchwomen as well.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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