Frenchwoman
Americannoun
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Frenchwomen
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Frenchwoman
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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
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
“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
Running the gamut between parodic faux-autofiction and historical fiction narrated by a bevy of marooned, increasingly dissolute Frenchwomen, the stories here are almost studiously varied.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
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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