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Frenchesque
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French-esque
English
Adjective
en French-esque.
en Rosemary Wright Dining and entertainment with Rosemary Wright: Your dining out M.O. …what is it? Daily News-Post 64 203 Monrovia, Calif. 4 May 1973 A 6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/606625793/ The Chalon is a rock solid dinging pleasure during lunch and dinner, with an exquisite setting and full course Frenchesque food complete with fine wines and sparkling table cloths.
en w:Mason Williams Saturday Night At the World https://archive.org/details/cd_classical-gas_mason-williams-mannheim-steamroller_0 Classical Gas Omaha, Neb. American Gramaphone Records 1987 It’s pretty hard to get these real facts out of the lyric, so it’s probably a pretty good dose of Paris intellectual . . . the melody even sounds Frenchesque . . . (Whew! Weird word!)
en w:Michael Kilian Edifice complexes w:Chicago Tribune 142d year 116 Chicago, Ill. 26 April 1989 section 7 14 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/389234012/ Their nearest neighbor, a sports promoter, occupies a four-story, $20 million Frenchesque chateau.
en New Statesman Society 1991 8 https://books.google.com/books?id=b_SFAAAAIAAJ&q=Frenchesque 3 But I know what you’re going to ask. What about that certain Frenchesque jolt of sex appeal? If Leslie Bennetts met me at the moment there would be not so much a jolt, more that slightly repulsive tingle you get from a spent battery, the sort that you find in an old torch which is not only dead, but has leaked and corroded everything around it.
en Terry Durack; Jill Dupleix Bruce Elder The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2001 16th Melbourne, Vic. Anne O’Donovan August 2000 130 https://archive.org/details/sydneymorningher0000dura/page/130/mode/1up 1 1 876026 34 0 With its underground chic and clubby comfort, this is a bar scene for grown-ups, complete with terrific Frenchesque food and edgy live jazz.
en w:David Quantick [Leisure] Airport ‘Pubs’ and ‘Restaurants’ Grumpy Old Men: A Manual for the British Malcontent London HarperCollinsEntertainment 2004 66 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780007717040/page/66/mode/1up 0-00-771704-0 You can’t have a crappy salad with bits of egg and human hair in at Chez A La Pierre’s Frenchesque Restaurant at Manchester International and decide that next time you might opt for a Chinese instead because there isn’t a Chinese.
en Mick Cleary Leicester’s pride hurt in low-grade display w:The Daily Telegraph 46,778 London 31 October 2005 S20 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/753357305/ 2–3 Stade Francais, missing an entire back line, still suffer from the faults of French teams in that they are maddeningly inconsistent. They were Frenchesque in their invention against Clermont-Auvergne the previous week, yet plain old plodders for much of this encounter.
en Bridget Asher The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted Thorndike, Me. Center Point Publishing 2011 449 https://archive.org/details/provencecureforb0000ashe_u3u8/page/447/mode/1up 978-1-61173-135-4 Eric is a native French speaker. His English is Frenchesque. When I received the recipes, there was still some translation work to be done. A robot coupe? Vers in a bowl?
en Sharon Edwards Some Sunny Day Pioneer Boulevard: Los Angeles Stories Pasadena, Calif. Consonant Books 2013 135 https://archive.org/details/pioneerboulevard0000edwa/page/135/mode/1up 978-0-9893233-0-7 I’d also noticed that Imogen often made spelling mistakes. I don’t mean British spelling—those Frenchesque -re endings for words like center and saltpeter;
en D.G. Carothers Nicola https://books.google.com/books?id=51SbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT156 T.A.G. You’re Found The Assassins’ Guild 4 2021 9798416798215 “You’re Nicola, right? Val’s brother.” I jerked in surprise at the very fine man attached to the deep Frenchesque accent and suddenly sitting on the stool next to me.