Frenchwise

English

Etymology

From French +‎ -wise.

Adverb

Frenchwise (not comparable)

1. In the French manner or style.
   • 1866, Edward Deacon Girdlestone, Memory Helped, page 11:

     […] and in the sixth line “Re” must be pronounced Frenchwise, as if it were “Er.”

   • 1937, Claude McKay, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, A Long Way from Home, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, published 2007, page 200:

     But toward the end of the evening, when we all began kissing one another on both cheeks, Frenchwise, bidding Lucien a last farewell, a sailor started singing the “Internationale.”