Significado de french em inglês

french

US (also french)

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french verb [I or T] (PREPARE MEAT)

to prepare a chop or rib (= a piece of meat cooked and served on the bone) by removing any meat from the end of the bone:

Prepare a four-bone rack of lamb by frenching the bones.

If the rib bones have been frenched, wrap them with aluminum foil so they don't blacken.

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french verb [I or T] (KISS)

informal old-fashioned

to French-kiss (= kiss with the lips apart and the tongues touching):

Everywhere there were young couples frenching.

I realized that the woman who was frenching me was his wife.

French

noun

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the language that people speak in France, parts of Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada, and other countries:

French is my first language.

Do you speak French?

The documents were written in French.

the French [ plural ]

the people of France

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Frenchman

Frenchwoman

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Marguerite teaches French at the local secondary school.
I can't speak a word of French, so everyone knows I'm a foreigner as soon as I arrive in France.
French, Italian, and Spanish are major Romance languages.
Have you got a dictionary I can use for translating French into English?
French is the official language in many different countries.

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Idioma

excuse/pardon my French!

French

adjective

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belonging to or relating to France, its people, or its language:

French food/culture/music

We used to spend our holidays in a small French town.

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Natalie's mother is French and her father is English.
The French film "Trois hommes et un bébé" was remade in Hollywood as "Three Men and a Baby".
There's a charming, but rather pricey, French restaurant just around the corner.
They now live near the French town of Limoges.
Christian Dior was a French fashion designer.