Frenchly

adj, adv — 2 senses

Frenchly

adj

UK /ˈfɹɛn(t)ʃli/

Etymology From French + -ly (adjectival suffix).

1

Obsolete French.

As their bodily exerciſe was Frenchly, ſo their vvits activity was alſo; for they uſed to be pleaſant and facetious in French focus.1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLVIII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 517:

Frenchly

adv

Etymology From French + -ly (adverbial suffix).

1

In the manner of the French or their language.

Van Kampen, who anticipated Motley in disparaging the Walloons as being Frenchly fickle...1912, John Mackinnon Robertson, The evolution of states:
He thought it indecorous to have a young and pretty girl packing with him in his room. He was thinking so Frenchly, that it even seemed to him Bess should not have proposed it.1916, Ethel Sidgwick, Hatchways:

1 more example

I realized how unlike his true self he had been; he was Frenchly warm today, and Frenchly open and reasonable.1937, Marguerite Farlee Bayliss, Bolinvar:

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