french
/fɹɛnt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
- To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
- To kiss in this manner.
- To French trim; to stylishly expose bone by removing the fat and meat covering it (as done to a rack of lamb or bone-in rib-eye steak).
He/she/it frenches · Past frenched · Past participle frenched · -ing form frenching
Verb forms
- Base form
- french
- He/she/it
- frenches
- Past
- frenched
- Past participle
- frenched
- -ing form
- frenching
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Young Mary Joe, a buxom, broad-faced French girl from the creek, whom Mrs.
By her side I am Spanish, but the family of Morcerf is French, and, I have heard, one of the oldest of the south of France.”
“Jean Baptiste Greuze,” Holmes continued, joining his finger tips and leaning well back in his chair, “was a French artist who flourished between the years 1750 and 1800.
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”--by which Latin, geometry, French, and algebra were meant.
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