Frenchesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Frenchesque
form: most Frenchesque
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1973 May 4, Rosemary Wright, “Dining and entertainment with Rosemary Wright: Your dining out M.O. …what is it?”, in Daily News-Post, volume 64, number 203, Monrovia, Calif., page A 6:
text: 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!)
ref: 1987, Mason Williams, “Saturday Night At the World”, in Classical Gas, Omaha, Neb.: American Gramaphone Records:
text: Their nearest neighbor, a sports promoter, occupies a four-story, $20 million Frenchesque chateau.
ref: 1989 April 26, Michael Kilian, “Edifice complexes”, in Chicago Tribune, 142d year, number 116, Chicago, Ill., section 7, page 14:
text: 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.
ref: 1991, New Statesman Society, page 8, column 3:
text: With its underground chic and clubby comfort, this is a bar scene for grown-ups, complete with terrific Frenchesque food and edgy live jazz.
ref: 2000 August, Terry Durack, Jill Dupleix, with Bruce Elder, The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2001, 16th edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Anne O’Donovan, →ISBN, page 130, column 1:
text: 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.
ref: 2004, David Quantick, “[Leisure] Airport ‘Pubs’ and ‘Restaurants’”, in Grumpy Old Men: A Manual for the British Malcontent, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 66:
text: 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.
ref: 2005 October 31, Mick Cleary, “Leicester’s pride hurt in low-grade display”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 46,778, London, page S20, columns 2–3:
text: 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?
ref: 2011, Bridget Asher, The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, Thorndike, Me.: Center Point Publishing, →ISBN, page 449:
text: 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; […]
ref: 2013, Sharon Edwards, “Some Sunny Day”, in Pioneer Boulevard: Los Angeles Stories, Pasadena, Calif.: Consonant Books, →ISBN, page 135:
text: “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.
ref: 2021, D.G. Carothers, “Nicola”, in T.A.G. You’re Found (The Assassins’ Guild; 4), →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of French-esque.