Frenchwoman
Americannoun
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Frenchwomen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
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
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 verified oldest living person was a Frenchwoman, Jeanne Calment who lived for 122 years, between 1875 and1997, " he told BBC News.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
Esther was a Frenchwoman, who had lived with ‘Madame’, as she called her mistress, for many years, and who rather tyrannized over the old lady, who could not get along without her.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
A survey published last Monday found that 86 percent of Frenchwomen have been harassed on the street.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 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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