Frenchwoman
Americannoun
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Frenchwomen
plural
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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
The host, a Frenchwoman, glanced at her American husband, a slyly pleased smile on her face; the most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the start, #MeToo has faced resistance from some leading Frenchwomen, most notably in a public letter signed by the actress Catherine Deneuve and other famous figures, and the movement has had limited impact.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
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
There were many Polish civilians here and a few Frenchwomen as well.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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