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lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127, Hit ofþuhte na þe ma ealle Frencisc & Englisc.
lng gret..ealle þa burhwaru binnan Londone, Frencisce & Englisce, freondlice.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086, Eac on þam ilcan geare..for Willelm cyng of Normandige into France mid fyrde.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 198 [St Fursey] wende siððan suð ofer sæ, to francena rice.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 158 Maximianus hatte sum hæðen casere se ferde to Franclande mid mycelre fyrdinge.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1003, Her wæs Eaxeceaster abrocen þurh þone frenciscan ceorl Hugon.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1052, Ealle gearwe to wige ongean þone cyng, buton man ageafe Eustatsius & his men heom to hand sceofe, & eac þa Frencyscan þe on þam castelle wæron.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1060, Heinric se cyng forðferde on Francrice.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 88 Se ðe sprycð on Frencisc and þæt ne can ariht gecweðan, se wyrcð barbarolexin.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) in L. Kornexl Die Regularis Concordia (1993) v. 5 Ut non solum Romanę, uerum etiam Galliarum honestos aecclesiarum usus rudi Anglorum aecclesia decorando constitueret : þæt na þæt an Romaniscra ac eac swilce Frenciscra wyrþlice cyrcena gewunan niwre Engla cyrcean gewlitegende he [sc. Augustine] gesette.
OE Royal Charter: William I to Bp. William, Gosfrith the Portreeve, & Burghers of London in A. J. Robertson Laws Kings England (1925) 230 Willelm ky
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lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127, Hit ofþuhte na þe ma ealle Frencisc & Englisc.
lng gret..ealle þa burhwaru binnan Londone, Frencisce & Englisce, freondlice.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086, Eac on þam ilcan geare..for Willelm cyng of Normandige into France mid fyrde.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 198 [St Fursey] wende siððan suð ofer sæ, to francena rice.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 158 Maximianus hatte sum hæðen casere se ferde to Franclande mid mycelre fyrdinge.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1003, Her wæs Eaxeceaster abrocen þurh þone frenciscan ceorl Hugon.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1052, Ealle gearwe to wige ongean þone cyng, buton man ageafe Eustatsius & his men heom to hand sceofe, & eac þa Frencyscan þe on þam castelle wæron.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1060, Heinric se cyng forðferde on Francrice.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 88 Se ðe sprycð on Frencisc and þæt ne can ariht gecweðan, se wyrcð barbarolexin.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) in L. Kornexl Die Regularis Concordia (1993) v. 5 Ut non solum Romanę, uerum etiam Galliarum honestos aecclesiarum usus rudi Anglorum aecclesia decorando constitueret : þæt na þæt an Romaniscra ac eac swilce Frenciscra wyrþlice cyrcena gewunan niwre Engla cyrcean gewlitegende he [sc. Augustine] gesette.
OE Royal Charter: William I to Bp. William, Gosfrith the Portreeve, & Burghers of London in A. J. Robertson Laws Kings England (1925) 230 Willelm ky
1150c (▸?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 35 Do þanne ele to, þe beo of frencissen hnutu, and drince þæt.
1225c (1200) St. Katherine (Bodl. 34) (1981) l. 4 (MED), Ah Costentin ferde, þurh þe burhmenne read, into Franclonde.
1225c? (▸?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 11a Ich am apaied..vch an segge ase best bereð hire on heorte..redunge of englisch oðer of..frensch [a1250 Nero Freinchs].
1240 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1991) 177/1 William Franckeche.
1273 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1991) 177/2 Simon le Frensch.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3590 Iulius Scezar wes iuaren. mid vnimete ferde; from Rome. into France.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 20 Boc he nom þe þridde..þa makede a Frenchis clerc, Wace wes ihoten.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7680 Þis ihærden segge Julius, þat þa Frenscen [c1300 Otho Frence] speken þus.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 11524 To heȝe þan kinge. Lauerd Arður faren we; to Francene riche.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 11692 A þere ilke worlde. þa þis wes iwurðen. wes Francene lond; Gualle ihaten.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15519 þe king of France Leouwis; ȝirneð hire ful iwis.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11885 Þa iherden þa Frence men þat at Rome wes Maximien.
1325a (▸c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 81 Ðes frenkis men o france moal, It nemnen un iur natural.
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7542 (MED), Vor bote a man conne frenss [v.rr. frenysch, frenchs, frenshe], me telþ of him lute.
1330c Otuel (Auch.) l. 266 Þine freinsche kniȝtes kune ȝelpe wel.
1330c (▸?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) in Englische Studien (1885) 8 116 Of freyns men & of griffouns, Mi broþer liþ sleyn.
1335 Charter Roll, 9 Edw. III (P.R.O.: C 53/122) m. 4, H[enricus] þurgh godes geuæ Ænglandes king grete..ealle mine scirreues & ealle mine ðeines francissce & Ænglissce.
1350 in H. E. Salter Mediaeval Arch. Univ. Oxf. (1921) II. 134 (MED), Þe ferþyng frensh lof shal weye as moche as þe symnel.
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 171 (MED), A bataille atwix þe kyng of Fraunce and þe gentiles of Normandie.
1390c Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) l. 25 Ne mowe we alle Latin wite..Ne French.
1398▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxxxiii. 780 Fransshe men ben yclepede Galli and han þat name of whitnes of men.
1398▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cviii. 998 Þe more notes þat ben frenssh notes, and of [þe] lasse þat ben auelanes.
1398▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 185v, Noble Ryuers among þe whiche þe frenshe rone is moost plenteuous.
1400a (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 21081 To þe frenshe [Fairf. frenche] preched he Wonynge biside þe mekel see In herpolie & frigie.
1400a (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 24 Mony songes of dyuerse ryme As englisshe frensshe & latyne.
1400a (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22247 (MED), Þe frankis [Fairf. Frenche] kinges.
1400c (▸?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1116 Syþen with frenkysch fare & fele fayre loteȝ Þay stoden & stemed & stylly speken.
1405c (▸c1387–95) Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 126 For frenssh of Parys was to hire vnknowe.
1405c (▸c1390) Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 174 Thilke newe frenshe song.
1420–1 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 63 (MED), [To Beatrice Baxter, for] frenssh bread.
1425a? tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 156, After an houre forsoþ, ete he moderately & engrotte not hem selfe, þat on franch maner [L. more gallicano, ?c1425 Paris as the frensche men done] he procure not eftsonez fleobotomyed.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 74/1 Certayn Ambassitours shall come frome the Frenche partie into this Roialme in goodly hast.
1450 (1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 1701 (MED), He had slayn..Six hundred..Fraunceys; Siþen com alle þe frankische route, & closed hym yn al aboute.
1450a (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 1700 (MED), He had slayn, þe story seys, Six hundred Peyteuyns & Fraunceys.
1450a (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 2534 (MED), Aganyppus..samned an ost of his ffraunceys & comen wyþ Leyr ouer þe se.
1450a–1500 (▸1436) Libel Eng. Policy l. 526 Englysshe and Frensh, Lumbardes, Januayes, Cathalones, theder they take here ways.
1450c J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 24 (MED), Grete uictories had þis man ouyr..frauns, germanie, with all his prouynces..sueue eke he conquered.
1450c (▸?a1400) Sege Melayne l. 6 Off charlles of Fraunce [sc. Charlemagne]..This geste es sothe.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 16 Eche monk in the place to haue xijd..eche man a french loof and a quart wyn.
1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 13, iiij elne of Franche blak for a syde govne to the king.
1474 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 475 It is soo, as men seye, þat þe Frense Kynge wyth a gret hoste is at Amyas.
1475a? Ludus Coventriae 110 (MED), Olde cokwold, þi bow is bent newly now after þe frensche gyse.
1477 Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) Prol. 1 Vnder the proteccion..of..Edward by the grace of God kyng of Englond and of Fraunce and lord of Irland, I entende to translate the sayd boke.
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 32 A frensh priorie distat per 10 miliaria vsque a Gollant.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 3 Frenssh and englyssh.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. iii–v. sig. aiijv, Whether it were Powlis or not the Frensshe booke maketh no mencyon.
1487 (▸a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) 245 The fechtyn Betuix the Fraunce king and hyr sone.
1500a in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 18 French malue.
1500a in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 96 Then come in a horse hed In the stid of French brede.
1500a (▸?c1378) Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 429 Þe worþy reume of fraunse..haþ translatid þe bible..out of lateyn in-to freynsch.
1503 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 105 A surgeon whiche heled him of the Frenche pox.
1522a G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. Prol. 269 Vndir cullour of sum strange Franch wycht.
1522a G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. xi. l. 36 Thar mycht thou se the Franch army alhaill Haist..to the capitoll.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xix. f. xxxiv, The name of a surueyour is a frenche name, and is as moche to say in Englysshe as an ouerseer.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. lxxxiii/2, He came to the frenche kyng and sayd in gode frenche (sir yelde you).
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. III. f. ccciii/2, The people of Englande..sayde howe that Rycharde of Burdeaulx wolde distroy them all if he be let alone, his herte is so frenche that he canne nat hyde it.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 223/1 Frenche spoken in Burgondy, wallon.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. xcviv, I..wolde also be bolde in such french as is peculiare to the lawys of this realme, to leue it wyth them in wrytynge to.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Trachinia, A kynde of roses, not perfytely red, lyke to them, that we call french roses.
1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre sig. Hiiiv, The emperour Cesar August, building turrettes and places of fence in the costes of Fraunce.
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Dij, Nowe the frenshe fasshyon, nowe the Spanyshe fasshyon.
1545–6 Dominorum Concilii et Sessionis XX. 102 Ane govn of France broun lynit with romage buge.
1548 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 136 Ane blak Spanye cloyk of France blak.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. †. viijv, For kyllynge Uiridomar the Frenche kynge in [the] felde at the Ryuer of Pade.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iij, It is called in englishe french Mallowe.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. Fv, The one is called..in englishe a frenche Leke.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.i, Scilla is named..in english a sea Onion, and in some places, a french Onyon.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iiijv, Spartium or spartum..is a bushe called of some gardiners frenche brome.
1549 King Edward VI Jrnl. (Roxb.) II. 227 Thei laying at anker bett the French.
1556 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 564 The backe..vnderneth the turned pilleres of the stalles to be frenche pannell.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 304 Take a vessell of glas (as Maithæolus Senen. writeth in his boke of the Frenche euil [L. de morbo Catholico]).
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 334 For the French diseas, reade Nicolaus Massa the sixte booke.
1562 W. Turner Herball II. 148 About London it is called Frenche lauander.
1564 in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. (1753) iv. 317/1 That thay nor nane of thame..sall lit ony maner of Culor of Muster de Villois, French Gray, or Russatis,..bot the samyn to be littit with Mader, Alme, Glew, and sic trew Cullors as hes bene, and is usit amongis Men of Honestie, [etc.].
1565–6 in W. Fraser Melvilles & Leslies (1890) II. 5 We haue writtin..to the Fransche ambassatour.
1568 Protocol Bks. T. Johnsoun (1920) 109 Ane pair of clokis of fyne Pares blak..and ane France kirtill.
1572 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 122 One Frenche gowne..one other gowne.
1573 C. Hollyband (title) The French Schoole-maister, wherin is most plainlie shewed, the true and most perfect way of pronouncinge of the Frenche tongue, without any helpe of Maister or teacher.
1573 J. Baret Aluearie F. 1058 Like a frenchman, or french wise, Gallicé.
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes f. 11, The Spanyardes did thinke that it [sc. the pox] had been giuen them by the Frenche men, and thei called it the Frenche euil.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. 1. 127 Esquire (which we call commonlie Squire) is a French word.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lvi. 731 The fruit is called..in Englishe Walnuttes..and of some Frenche Nuttes.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vii. 378 To breake the necke of the wicked purposes & plots of the French.
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. E4v, Blest be the French sleeues & breach verdingales.
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. in Wks. (1884) I. 174 Such French occurrences..as the credible relation of inquisitiue frendes..shall acquaint me withall.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C3v, I hope you will graunt, all these Frenche fauours grewe from whoores.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C4, There you shall see men diseased of the Frenche Marbles.
1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. vi. 37 All tithes of any new sets and commodities; as of sundry rootes, artichocks, osiers, woad, rape-seed, hoppes, French wheate, and such like.
1594 tr. A. Arnauld Arrainm. Whole Soc. Iesuits in France f. 11v, Do not those depositions make all true French hearts tremble and quake?
1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies iv. 129 At last return'd home again, he came that very same day twelue-moneth to his maister, and deliuer'd him the foresaid pot-full of Mustard, saying: Hold here (Maister) your messe of French Mustard.
1596 in J. R. N. Macphail Papers Sir William Fraser (1924) 228 Ane Frenche bed.
1596 in W. Fraser Mem. Montgomeries (1859) II. 236 Sevin singill Frinsche scheittis.
1596 P. Lowe Easie Method to cure Spanish Sicknes xv. sig. Dv, The patient must be nourished with things licquid, and of good iuice, and light digestion, like as..consumats made of extremities of Calfes, or of Fowles, French barley, [etc.].
1597 J. Gerard Herball (Table Eng. Names), French Lungwoort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. xcvi. 176 The Vine Leeke or French Leeke growth vp with blades like those of Leekes.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 262 It [sc. Mercurialis] is called..in English French Mercurie.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 625 Verbascum Mathioli. French Sage.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 625 Of French Sage, or woodie Mullein... They are called of the learned men of our time, Verbasca syluestria... In English it is generally called French Sage, we may call it Sage Mullein.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 663 Pulmonaria Gallorum. French Cowslips of Ierusalem.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1161 This Oke [sc. Ilex] is named..in English Barren scarlet Oke, or Holme Oke, and also of some French Oke.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xiii. 1303 Smal yellow floures like them of French Broome.
1599 Househ. Bks. James VI 23 Sept. (Transcr. MS Reg. H), Fyue vnce dredgie and Frensche mustart.
1599 in R. Alison Psalmes sig. Aiiiv, Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith. &c.
1599 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. 203 Seest thou yon gallant in the sumptuous clothes... Note his French-herring bones: but note no more.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 330 The Cantharides or French greene Flies.]
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxvii. 485 The third that is smallest of all three, is the French Willow [Fr. Oziers de France, L. gallicam].
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 21, Great store of furze, of which the shrubby sort is called tame, the better growne, French.]
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 55v, Yet can they no more giue a Cornish word for Tye, then..the French for Stand, the English for Emulus, or the Irish for Knaue.
1602 R. Parsons Warn-word f. 13v, His hawty wyues hayre would soone grow through her french veluet hood.
1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 23 Rubbing Ouer my poore French, hauing Litleton before me.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 292 His burned stalkes, with strong fumosities Of piercing vapours, purge the French disease.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 380 Who beare vpon their French-sicke backs [Fr. leur corps de verole rongez]..Farmes, Castles, Fees.
1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. G2v, The french maid taught me manners.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall ix. sig. C3, So french hes men beene in their fashions.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xv. 89 Because Erasmus calleth them ocreas, I have translated them bootes; we may not thinke that they were like French bootes [Fr. des bottines faictes à la façon des nostres], but such as might be worne with shoes.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. A3, Ile hold her by the fore-top fast ynough; Or like the French Moale heaue vp hayre and all.
1607 (▸?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) i. 51 For all thy frankish fare I will not doe after thy red.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 34 Oyntments that are prepared against the French or Spanish-pox.
1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories sig. Yv, I haue seene an old record in French verses, that at Karlavarock in Scotland in the time of King Edward the first, Evmenions de la Brecte, (so is hee there named) bare Gules.
1611 J. Donne Ignatius his Conclaue 30 This French-spanish [L. Gallo-Spanicum] mungrell, Ignatius.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues, Perdrix gaille,..the great browne-bodied, and red-legd Partridge, the French Partridge.
1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares v. sig. L2, If they bee poore they shall..bee giuen to Surgeons Hall, to bee stampt to salue for the French mesells.
1612 J. Webster White Divel (Rtldg.) 34/2, I have a rare French rider.
1612 T. Wilson Christian Dict. Pref., It is necessary in Grammar Schooles, that Children which learne French, Latine, or Greeke, haue their Dictionaries and Lexicons allowed them.
1612c W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. x. 121, I haue drunck often of the rath wyne, which..people haue made full as good as your French-Brittish wyne.
1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque sig. H1v, May the French Canniball eate into thy flesh And picke thy bones.
1614a J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 39 Heiring a France man..teache the Greik grammer.
1616 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. 42 Wel. Rare! your cousins discourse is simply drawn out with oathes. E. Kn. 'Tis larded with 'hem. A kind of french dressing, if you loue it.]
1616 J. Budden tr. Aerodius Disc. Parents Hon. 4 C. Flaminius..which enacted the law about the partage of some french grounds.
1616a Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iv. 30 Pist. M. Fer: Ile fer him, and firke him, and ferret him: discusse the same in French vnto him. Boy. I doe not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firke.
1616a Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 34, I had as liefe be a Lyst of an English Kersey, as be pil'd..for a French Veluet.
1616a Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 173 If but a dozen French Were there in Armes, they [etc.].
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. iv. 92 They take plenty of sea-fishes, which they Salt, and..grow rich by selling these commodities, as likewise Spanish and French Salt, and like trafficke.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 144 The curled Mallow, called of the vulgar sort, French Mallowes.
1623 Certaine Excellent & New Inuented Knots & Mazes 19 A French Knot.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 205 It was to be suspected I had robbed the French men in New France or Cannada.
1626c H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 201 These lawes war..translated out of Franche into Duche.
1629 Dumfries Test. I a. 215 Ane blak cloak of frynshe claithe.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (1656) 240 They [sc. Primula Auricula] are called by divers women French cowslips.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xix. 587 The French pippin is also a good fruit and yellow.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxix. 340 The red Sattin flower, although some foolishly call it, the red or French Honysuckle.
1629 T. May tr. Martial Epigrams sig. G5, If a woven purple coverled [sic], And fine french lawne adorn'd thy downy bed.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. lxxxiv. 397 (caption) Oxalis franca seu Romana. Round leaued, or French Sorrel.
1634 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 699 The French Eves to keepe the water from the building.
1634 tr. L. Lessius Hygiasticon 59 If we were but half as wise as we ought to be, there need none of all this ado that we make, about this and that kinde of Manchet, Dutchbread, and French-bread.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 168 If any place be more French then Paris.
1637 J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure sig. G3v, Your singing, dancing, riding, and French-master.
1638 Inv. Viscountess Dorchester in Notes & Queries (1953) 157, 1 French bedstead with furniture of black cloth.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xvi. 276 Make it up into pils somewhat bigger then a French Walnut.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 336 If the bone be not out, then put in a French Rowell a little beneath the stifling-place.
1640 J. Selden Briefe Disc. Power Peeres & Comons 1 William then Duke of Normandy..renowned for many victories he had fortunately atchieved against the Franch King.
1641a J. Webster & T. Heywood Appius & Virginia (1654) iii. 28 Your French flye applied to the nape of the neck for the French Rheume.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xii. 156 Yet since the last Conquest much French hath got in.
1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat.Tongue 243/1 A French-heeld-shoe, Mulleus.
1650 (title) A French-English dictionary, compil'd by Mr Randle Cotgrave: with another in English and French. Whereunto are newly added the animadversions and supplements, &c. of James Howell Esquire.
1651 C. Love Strange & Wonderful Predict. sig. Av, As to Monsieur Jurieu's predictions, relative to the French Revolution, they point out so clearly part of what has already come to pass, in France, [etc.].]
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iii. iii. 24/2 Car. Listen then while I anatomise my whole discourse from the head to the heel.., though your heel were a Polonian, or a French heel, which is the fashion.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvii. 186 St. Foyne is a French Grass much sowed there, upon their barren, dry, hasky Lands.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlviii, Such is the nature and complexion of the frenches that they are worth nothing, but at the first push.
1655 G. Markham Perfect Horseman 66 Finding his body dry, run slightly over it with your Curry-comb, after with the French Brush.
1655 Markham's Perfect Horseman 37 You shall cause to be made of Iron a Neck of a spur, an handfull or more long, having at the one end set a sharp Rowel as big as a great French Rowel.
1655 S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 20, I suppose many know better than I can Inform them, who for the most part are supplied with Dutch or French Brandy.
1655a T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus (1658) xxxi. 31 Take..a pint of French wheat flower.
1657 Speech Fife Laird in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 30 French-gows cut out and double banded.
1658 tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 102 You may..teach them to speak good French, now you are perfectly Vn-Gasconated.
1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden i. 9 French furze..will grow very spacious and to great flockt bodies in few years.
1660 R. May Accomplisht Cook vi. 162 French Toasts. Cut French Bread, and toast it in pretty thick toasts on a clean gridiron, and serve them steeped in claret, sack, or any wine, with sugar and juyce of orange.
1660 tr. R. Arnauld d'Andilly Manner of Ordering Fruit-trees iii. 53/2 The Holm Oak, or French Oak, which never casts its leaves, but is alwayes green.
1661 Burneby Specif. Patent 133, That sort of barley commonly called..French barley.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist 137 A Woman far gone in a Scurvie,..ful of spots and knubs as big as French Nuts about her body.
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 69 Suppose English Cloth were sold at six shillings a Yard, and French Canvas at eighteen pence the Ell.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 58 in Sylva, Golden-pepin, French-pepin, Kirton-pepin.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 80 in Sylva, The Squib-pear, Spindle-pear..and French Wardens.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 100 As no man of his own self catches, The Itch, or amorous French-aches.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 11 Oct. (1971) V. 295 Captain Titus told us the perticulars of the Frenche's expedition against Gigery, upon the Barbary Coast.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. 82 Great French Bedds full of found Children, sons of Batchelors, Priests Heirs, Bridewell Orphans.
1665 Another Coll. Philos. Conf. (Bureau d'adresse et de rencontre, Paris) cxlvi. 183 Amongst all Nations there is none to whom the vice of Levity is more imputed then to the French. Caesar who had long convers'd with them, frequently objects the same to them.
1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 12 Every hedg almost abounds wth female or French Mercury.
1669 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 557 The roofe..shalbe a sufficient strong French roofe to be made after the best manner hipt of[f].
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 120 A six-penny French loaf.
1673 Hudson's Bay Co. Minutes (1942) 59 That Mr. Kirke bee desired to treate for provideing Such french goodes as may be necessary.
1674 R. Boyle Tracts: Suspicions about Hidden Qualities of Air 9 Some pieces of a French rose..secur'd in a third [receiver].
1674 R. Hooke Diary 9 Nov. (1935) 129 He gave me 2 little pencils of French chalk.
1675 London Gaz. No. 979/4, A strait bodied Coat, with French Pockets.
1675 Woman turn'd Bully, Take my best French Point, tomorrow, for thy witty French Wheedle.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 83 This is called, (Erroniously) the Flat-French-Tuning; but might more properly go under the Name of Sharp.
1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius i. sig. Ev, Cassidony, vulg. cast me down, or French lavender, Stæchas.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 42 'Tis hard to say..who imported the French Goods.
1680a Ld. Rochester in Poems on Affairs of State (1697) 165 Nicely chuse, and neatly spread, Upon your Cheeks the best French Red.
1682 in J. H. Wilson Court Satires of Restoration (1976) 82 Swears and fucks and all the while's so French!
1682 Loyal Protestant & Domestick Intelligencer 7 Mar. [2]/2 (advt.) Any Gentleman may be furnished with Trumpets, French horns, Speaking Trumpets.
1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. i. 30 French Lungwort with smoother and more cut leaves.
1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 27 This Man of War, this French-bred Hero.
1685 A. Tyler Mem. Life & Actions Jhon the Great iii. 34 A fondness in his French-born-Queen.
1685 F. Cheneau (title) French Grammar enriched with a compendious and short way to learn the French tongue in a very short time..; and a very rare way to find out all the articles, nouns, pronouns [etc.].
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation 243/2 The Pears for Baking. The French Warden. The Spanish Warden. [Etc.]
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 11 Rub him [sc. a horse] all over with the French Brush, beginning at his forehead.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation vi. 217/2 There are also Colours which proceed from Berries, as Bay-Berries, French-Berries, &c. that make a good yellow.
1687a W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) iv. 85 The value of the French commodities brought into England.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 72/1 The French Sage, have them grow in bunches at the top, several leaves coming out together round the joints of the stalks.
1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 29 The easie Cure of the French Complement.
1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair ii. i. 13, I have bred thee to the very Achme and Perfection of Bury Breeding, which is inferiour to none in this our Island; Dancing, Singing, Ghittar, French Master.
1693 W. Wycherley Gentlem. Dancing-master i. 14 An extreme passion, dear Sir, you are so French, so mightily French, so agreeable French.
1698 R. Ainsworth Most Nat. Way of Inst. 26 Children, after having learn'd English, are in a Years time ordinarily taught French, or Italian, and that with Ease and Pleasure, both to themselves and Master.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, French Gout, the Pox.
1699 W. King Dialogues of Dead 59 Caesar when he had Subdu'd France, and wrote his Commentaries, could not have Printed them.
1702 Act of Tonnage & Poundage, & Rates of Merchandize 112 French Canvas and Line broad for Tabling, being an Ell and half Quarter and upwards.
1702 Act of Tonnage & Poundage, & Rates of Merchandize 116 French Lawns, the piece.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3928/4, A bay Nag..all his Paces, and had lately a French Rowel in the inside of the near Leg behind above the Hock.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4032/4, 11 Pieces of single French Brandy.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) at Alleluja, An Herb otherwise call'd Wood-sorrel, or French Sorrel.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry ix. 544 The English Warden, the French Warden, and the great Spanish Warden,..are excellent Baking Pears.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4509/3, Her Cargo of about 1000 Bushels of French Salt, more or less.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg i. 6 Their Frowns, French shrugs..Laughing [etc.].
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 350. ⁋1 An Engagement between a French Privateer..and a little Vessel of that Place.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 9 One Hunt Master, call'd the Hope-Gally, a small French-built Snow belonging to Mr. James Vaughan of Bristol.
1713 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) , Amel-Corn or French-Rice, a kind of Grain.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal soc.) 28 43 Cassidony or French Lavander... This famous Medicinal Plant grows in many Parts of Spain, Portugal and France.
1715 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 242 Broad Phlome, Yellow or French Sage,..Phlomis fruticosa.
1715 T. Burnet Second Tale of Tub xvii. 189 First, rode a Post-Boy, sounding with a French Horn a Fox Chase.
1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 (ed. 2) iii. 62 The French Willow is also one of the Dwarfs of this Chapter.
1719 A. Smith Lives & Robberies Most Notorious Highway-men (ed. 5) I. 224 The best Masters in London..not being able to shew such Footing as he did in his great riding French boots.
1719 R. Steele Spinster 5 A French Point or Flanders lac'd Head, Ruffles and Tucker.
1719 tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Compl. Herbal I. 126/2 Auricula Ursi, Bear's-Ear;..French Cowslip.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 13, I could speak but little French.
1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry I. 338 The French use the Word Massacree, for a Head Caboched.
1722a E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 277, I could have no prospect of mowing a good swarth in the French-grass.
1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 139 Mercurialis annua glabra vulgaris... French mercury the male and female. On the Sea Beach near Ryde in the Isle of Wight plentifully.
1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) , Rencontre, or au Rencontre, is a French Phrase signifying, that the Face of a Beast stands right forward, as if it came to meet the Person before it.
1726 N. B. Farrier's & Horseman's Dict. 377/1 Curry or brush him over with a French brush down his Temples.
1727 S. Colliber Columna Rostrata iv. 84 The English, likewise attacking the French city of Quebec in North-America, reduced it.
1728 Chambers's Cycl. II. at Staircase, 119/1 French Flyers, which fly, first directly forwards, till they come within a Length of a Stair of the Wall; [etc.].
1728 J. Woodward Catal. Foreign Fossils i. 3 in Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils, Red French chalk.
1730 tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Compl. Herbal II. 349/2 Porrum sylvestre... Wild French Leek, or Vine Leek.
1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. 623 Walnuts are in the Welsh Language called French Nuts.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict., Napus, the Navew or French Turnip.
1733 E. Budgell Bee IV. 341 A French-Celtick, or French-British Dictionary..useful and curious..for finding the Etymology of several French and British Words.
1733 Sch. Miniature 24 If you use Naples Yellow or French Pink instead of Masticoat and Gamboge, you will have another sort of Yellow.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 15 Take French Flies..and a few Drops of Vinegar.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 304 Several annual Flowers, as the..French Marygold, French Apple, Convolvulus..and others.
1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 10 Jan. 3/1 David Delescure Reader of the French Church, teaches French and English in a facil and easy Method, either at home or abroad.
1738 W. Plunkett New Method Farming 25 To prevent further Mistakes as to French Drains.
1740 Hist. Jamaica 207 If any Servant..happen to have the French-pox.
1742 R. West Let. 4 Apr. in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 190 [Racine's] language is the language of the times, and that of the purest sort; so that his French is reckoned a standard.
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman I. Feb. 139 The green French Pippin, green at the Ripest; which is a Winter-Apple, and answers all the Character that may be given a good bearing, large, keeping, pleasant Apple.
1745? A. Rothwell, Perfumer 1/3 Powders, Creams, and Washes for the Skin. Carmine French Rouge.
1746 C. Macklin Henry VII v. iv. 93 Lord Dawbney..hath dragg'd thence our French-made Monarch.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 36 Some little French Loaves, about the Bigness of an Egg.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvii. 147 (heading) Of Made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Muffins, &c.
1747 Newcastle Gen. Mag. 188/2 His Lilly Fingers have been pidling about every Lady's French Pocket that came in his Reach.
1747 W. King Toast ii. 48 One was censur'd for combing her Eye-brows with Lead, And another for spreading a Grain of French Red.
1748 Case Re-stated 50 We could not if we would, conquer the French American Colonies.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. ix. 75, I am so far from desiring to exhibit such Pictures to the Public, that I would wish to draw a Curtain over those..in certain French novels.
1750 P. Collinson Let. 22 Feb. in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 307 Our Common Furze..is vulgarly Called French Furze.
1751 J. Fauchon French Tongue made Easy to Learners Introd. sig. c, This Person left off being a Journey-man Printer, to constitute himself a French Teacher.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 115 My French maid, whom I had sent for some of my cloaths, was dogged in her return.
1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 16 Our pretty Gentlemen..sputter nothing but bad French in the Side-boxes at Home.
1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 25 French Barley is skinned, and has the Ends ground off.
1754 London Mag. July 558/2 But who would exchange the brilliancy of the diamond for the faint lustre of French paste?
1757 tr. J. G. Keysler Trav. through Germany II. lix. 395 The clock of this church strikes the hours after the French and German method of computation..; in Naples there are more French clocks, as they are called [Ger. man..mehr von der so genannten französischen Uhr..weis], than in any other city in Italy.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 246 Germany bravely defended against the French and Bavarians.
1759 H. Howard Choice Spirits Museum 8 He'd curb the poor Steed with a French Bit & Bridle.
1759 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 575 How do you think we warmed and amused ourselves? Why I taught them French Fox.
1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 11 Acetosa rotunda... Garden or French sorrel, with roundish leaves and ears.
1766 P. Playstowe Gentleman's Guide in Tour Through France 72 Those judicious French-bred physicians.
1769 J. Skeat Art of Cookery at May, French Toast.
1769 Polit. Reg. Sept. 120 The commission or instructions allowing the French-born popish subjects a share in the legislature.
1770 G. Washington Diary 28 Mar. (1976) II. 226, I planted three french Walnuts in the New Garden.
1771 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 2) Dict., Gyron,..this word is the French for bosom.
1771 C. G. Powys Passages from Diaries (1899) 146 It's stucco'd of a French grey.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 451 He followed the trade of a miller, and maker of French barley.
1772 Compl. Lett.-writer xxxii. 222 Mrs. Finch the Milliner, waited on her with a fine French Gauze Suit, which she had ordered her to bring.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. i. i. 11 It is particularly famous for the cure of the French disease.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 182 Which have made our..idiom so very French-sick..that [etc.].
1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 205/2 French Mallow. This species has a trailing, branching stalk.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 120 It was eighteen feet and an half, French measure, in length.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 87, I met with this species at Scarborough, where it is called the French Ray.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. v. 133 Buckthorn... The juice of the unripe berries is the colour of saffron... These are sold under the name of French Berries.
1777 D. Garrick Let. 6 Jan. in Lett. of Garrick & Spencer (1960) 81 Monsieur Letexier is to perform Pygmalion..in French.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 437 Wall Hawkweed. French Lungwort.
1778 Catalogus Arborum et Fruticum (Royal Bot. Garden Edinburgh) 17 Rosa gallica... French Rose.
1778 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) 390 Take one pound of bitter-almonds, blanch and beat them very fine in a mortar; put in the whites of four eggs, one ounce of French white of Trois.
1779 M. Patten Diary (1903) 400, I went to our shugar Camp and covered some fire steads with brush where we had Cabbage and french Turnip seed sowed to preserve them from Cattle.
1780 J. Hope Thoughts 81 You will there see some of those lanthorn-houses I have before mentioned, and by them you may judge, if my remarks on French windows are agreeable to reason.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 375 His stock a few French phrases got by heart.
1782 J. Price Some Observ. Publ. intitled Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 13 Mr. Mackintosh being the son of a Scotch Planter, by a French Creole, of one of the West India Islands.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 369 French Honeysuckle, which is distinguished..by its jointed, prickly, naked, straight legumes.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 546 Her tott'ring form Ill propp'd upon French heels.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 670 His address, if not quite French at ease, Not English stiff, but frank, and formed to please.
1786 F. Eppes Let. 31 Aug. in T. Jefferson Papers (1958) XV. 631 A man..capable of teaching our girls French English erethmatick and musick.
1788 D. Monro Treat. Med. & Pharmaceut. Chym. III. 319 Prunum Gallicum... French plum, or common prune.
1788 E. Blower Features from Life I. v. 55 She had acquired that free familiar air which distinguishes the French provincial ladies; but without their wit and engaging vivacity.
1788 Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxxi. 632 Under the dominion of the Greek and French Emperors, the peace of the city [sc.Rome] was disturbed by accidental, though frequent, seditions.
1788 J. St. John Lett. from France I. xii. 86 The effect of the urns and balusters is lost on account of a large lumpish French roof.
1788 Let. in H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. (new ed.) App. 658 In 1763..there was no such place as an Hotel; the word indeed was not known, or only intelligible to French scholars.
1789 Gibbon let. to Ld. Sheffield Aug. in Misc. Wks. (1837) 127 Are you not amazed at the French revolution?
1789 J. Adam Pract. Ess. Agric. I. iv. viii. 416 This grain [sc. buckwheat] has been much more in use in France, from whence we improperly give it the name of French wheat.
1789 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica (new ed.) 264 French Oak... This beautiful tree..grows to a considerable size, and is generally looked upon as an excellent timber-tree.
1789 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy III. v. 87 The French Swiss peasant [Ger. der Französischer [sic]Schweizerbauer] is as distinct as possible from the peasant of Appenzel.
1791 Times 26 Dec. 1/3 (advt.) From France, Sweatmeats, wet and dry; French vinegars, French mustard, French soup strainers.
1792 Fanny I. iii. 189 He led her into a small room, very elegantly furnished with sophas, a French bed, and every article of modern luxury.
1793 J. Ireland Hogarth Illustr. (ed. 2) III. 246 On the sinister, is a drawing denominated exotics, consisting of queue and bag-wigs, muffs, solitaires, petticoats, French heeled shoes, and other fantastic fripperies.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 9 Their sprightly melodies, debonnaire steps [etc.]..gave a character to the scene entirely French.
1798 Ld. Nelson 28 Sept. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 135 The only remaining French-built Ship of the Line.
1799 H. Neuman (title) A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index.
1799 L. T. Rede Anecd. & Biogr. 398 It was one of the best he ever made for Swan and Buck, and he had made many hundred yards of French velvet.
1800 E. Smith Smith's Trial sig. B, On the 6th day of August in the fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King.
1800 Times 14 Mar. 1/1 (advt.) Trio for two French Horns, and Viola da Gamba.
1225c (1200) St. Katherine (Bodl. 34) (1981) l. 4 (MED), Ah Costentin ferde, þurh þe burhmenne read, into Franclonde.
1225c? (▸?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 11a Ich am apaied..vch an segge ase best bereð hire on heorte..redunge of englisch oðer of..frensch [a1250 Nero Freinchs].
1240 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1991) 177/1 William Franckeche.
1273 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1991) 177/2 Simon le Frensch.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3590 Iulius Scezar wes iuaren. mid vnimete ferde; from Rome. into France.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 20 Boc he nom þe þridde..þa makede a Frenchis clerc, Wace wes ihoten.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7680 Þis ihærden segge Julius, þat þa Frenscen [c1300 Otho Frence] speken þus.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 11524 To heȝe þan kinge. Lauerd Arður faren we; to Francene riche.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 11692 A þere ilke worlde. þa þis wes iwurðen. wes Francene lond; Gualle ihaten.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15519 þe king of France Leouwis; ȝirneð hire ful iwis.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11885 Þa iherden þa Frence men þat at Rome wes Maximien.
1325a (▸c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 81 Ðes frenkis men o france moal, It nemnen un iur natural.
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7542 (MED), Vor bote a man conne frenss [v.rr. frenysch, frenchs, frenshe], me telþ of him lute.
1330c Otuel (Auch.) l. 266 Þine freinsche kniȝtes kune ȝelpe wel.
1330c (▸?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) in Englische Studien (1885) 8 116 Of freyns men & of griffouns, Mi broþer liþ sleyn.
1335 Charter Roll, 9 Edw. III (P.R.O.: C 53/122) m. 4, H[enricus] þurgh godes geuæ Ænglandes king grete..ealle mine scirreues & ealle mine ðeines francissce & Ænglissce.
1350 in H. E. Salter Mediaeval Arch. Univ. Oxf. (1921) II. 134 (MED), Þe ferþyng frensh lof shal weye as moche as þe symnel.
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 171 (MED), A bataille atwix þe kyng of Fraunce and þe gentiles of Normandie.
1390c Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) l. 25 Ne mowe we alle Latin wite..Ne French.
1398▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxxxiii. 780 Fransshe men ben yclepede Galli and han þat name of whitnes of men.
1398▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cviii. 998 Þe more notes þat ben frenssh notes, and of [þe] lasse þat ben auelanes.
1398▸a J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 185v, Noble Ryuers among þe whiche þe frenshe rone is moost plenteuous.
1400a (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 21081 To þe frenshe [Fairf. frenche] preched he Wonynge biside þe mekel see In herpolie & frigie.
1400a (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 24 Mony songes of dyuerse ryme As englisshe frensshe & latyne.
1400a (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22247 (MED), Þe frankis [Fairf. Frenche] kinges.
1400c (▸?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1116 Syþen with frenkysch fare & fele fayre loteȝ Þay stoden & stemed & stylly speken.
1405c (▸c1387–95) Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 126 For frenssh of Parys was to hire vnknowe.
1405c (▸c1390) Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 174 Thilke newe frenshe song.
1420–1 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 63 (MED), [To Beatrice Baxter, for] frenssh bread.
1425a? tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 156, After an houre forsoþ, ete he moderately & engrotte not hem selfe, þat on franch maner [L. more gallicano, ?c1425 Paris as the frensche men done] he procure not eftsonez fleobotomyed.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 74/1 Certayn Ambassitours shall come frome the Frenche partie into this Roialme in goodly hast.
1450 (1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 1701 (MED), He had slayn..Six hundred..Fraunceys; Siþen com alle þe frankische route, & closed hym yn al aboute.
1450a (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 1700 (MED), He had slayn, þe story seys, Six hundred Peyteuyns & Fraunceys.
1450a (▸a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 2534 (MED), Aganyppus..samned an ost of his ffraunceys & comen wyþ Leyr ouer þe se.
1450a–1500 (▸1436) Libel Eng. Policy l. 526 Englysshe and Frensh, Lumbardes, Januayes, Cathalones, theder they take here ways.
1450c J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 24 (MED), Grete uictories had þis man ouyr..frauns, germanie, with all his prouynces..sueue eke he conquered.
1450c (▸?a1400) Sege Melayne l. 6 Off charlles of Fraunce [sc. Charlemagne]..This geste es sothe.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 16 Eche monk in the place to haue xijd..eche man a french loof and a quart wyn.
1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 13, iiij elne of Franche blak for a syde govne to the king.
1474 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 475 It is soo, as men seye, þat þe Frense Kynge wyth a gret hoste is at Amyas.
1475a? Ludus Coventriae 110 (MED), Olde cokwold, þi bow is bent newly now after þe frensche gyse.
1477 Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) Prol. 1 Vnder the proteccion..of..Edward by the grace of God kyng of Englond and of Fraunce and lord of Irland, I entende to translate the sayd boke.
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 32 A frensh priorie distat per 10 miliaria vsque a Gollant.
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 3 Frenssh and englyssh.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) i. iii–v. sig. aiijv, Whether it were Powlis or not the Frensshe booke maketh no mencyon.
1487 (▸a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) 245 The fechtyn Betuix the Fraunce king and hyr sone.
1500a in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 18 French malue.
1500a in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 96 Then come in a horse hed In the stid of French brede.
1500a (▸?c1378) Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 429 Þe worþy reume of fraunse..haþ translatid þe bible..out of lateyn in-to freynsch.
1503 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 105 A surgeon whiche heled him of the Frenche pox.
1522a G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. Prol. 269 Vndir cullour of sum strange Franch wycht.
1522a G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. xi. l. 36 Thar mycht thou se the Franch army alhaill Haist..to the capitoll.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xix. f. xxxiv, The name of a surueyour is a frenche name, and is as moche to say in Englysshe as an ouerseer.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. lxxxiii/2, He came to the frenche kyng and sayd in gode frenche (sir yelde you).
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. III. f. ccciii/2, The people of Englande..sayde howe that Rycharde of Burdeaulx wolde distroy them all if he be let alone, his herte is so frenche that he canne nat hyde it.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 223/1 Frenche spoken in Burgondy, wallon.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. xcviv, I..wolde also be bolde in such french as is peculiare to the lawys of this realme, to leue it wyth them in wrytynge to.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Trachinia, A kynde of roses, not perfytely red, lyke to them, that we call french roses.
1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre sig. Hiiiv, The emperour Cesar August, building turrettes and places of fence in the costes of Fraunce.
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Dij, Nowe the frenshe fasshyon, nowe the Spanyshe fasshyon.
1545–6 Dominorum Concilii et Sessionis XX. 102 Ane govn of France broun lynit with romage buge.
1548 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 136 Ane blak Spanye cloyk of France blak.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. †. viijv, For kyllynge Uiridomar the Frenche kynge in [the] felde at the Ryuer of Pade.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iij, It is called in englishe french Mallowe.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. Fv, The one is called..in englishe a frenche Leke.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.i, Scilla is named..in english a sea Onion, and in some places, a french Onyon.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iiijv, Spartium or spartum..is a bushe called of some gardiners frenche brome.
1549 King Edward VI Jrnl. (Roxb.) II. 227 Thei laying at anker bett the French.
1556 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 564 The backe..vnderneth the turned pilleres of the stalles to be frenche pannell.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 304 Take a vessell of glas (as Maithæolus Senen. writeth in his boke of the Frenche euil [L. de morbo Catholico]).
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 334 For the French diseas, reade Nicolaus Massa the sixte booke.
1562 W. Turner Herball II. 148 About London it is called Frenche lauander.
1564 in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. (1753) iv. 317/1 That thay nor nane of thame..sall lit ony maner of Culor of Muster de Villois, French Gray, or Russatis,..bot the samyn to be littit with Mader, Alme, Glew, and sic trew Cullors as hes bene, and is usit amongis Men of Honestie, [etc.].
1565–6 in W. Fraser Melvilles & Leslies (1890) II. 5 We haue writtin..to the Fransche ambassatour.
1568 Protocol Bks. T. Johnsoun (1920) 109 Ane pair of clokis of fyne Pares blak..and ane France kirtill.
1572 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 122 One Frenche gowne..one other gowne.
1573 C. Hollyband (title) The French Schoole-maister, wherin is most plainlie shewed, the true and most perfect way of pronouncinge of the Frenche tongue, without any helpe of Maister or teacher.
1573 J. Baret Aluearie F. 1058 Like a frenchman, or french wise, Gallicé.
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes f. 11, The Spanyardes did thinke that it [sc. the pox] had been giuen them by the Frenche men, and thei called it the Frenche euil.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. 1. 127 Esquire (which we call commonlie Squire) is a French word.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lvi. 731 The fruit is called..in Englishe Walnuttes..and of some Frenche Nuttes.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vii. 378 To breake the necke of the wicked purposes & plots of the French.
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. E4v, Blest be the French sleeues & breach verdingales.
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. in Wks. (1884) I. 174 Such French occurrences..as the credible relation of inquisitiue frendes..shall acquaint me withall.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C3v, I hope you will graunt, all these Frenche fauours grewe from whoores.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C4, There you shall see men diseased of the Frenche Marbles.
1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. vi. 37 All tithes of any new sets and commodities; as of sundry rootes, artichocks, osiers, woad, rape-seed, hoppes, French wheate, and such like.
1594 tr. A. Arnauld Arrainm. Whole Soc. Iesuits in France f. 11v, Do not those depositions make all true French hearts tremble and quake?
1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies iv. 129 At last return'd home again, he came that very same day twelue-moneth to his maister, and deliuer'd him the foresaid pot-full of Mustard, saying: Hold here (Maister) your messe of French Mustard.
1596 in J. R. N. Macphail Papers Sir William Fraser (1924) 228 Ane Frenche bed.
1596 in W. Fraser Mem. Montgomeries (1859) II. 236 Sevin singill Frinsche scheittis.
1596 P. Lowe Easie Method to cure Spanish Sicknes xv. sig. Dv, The patient must be nourished with things licquid, and of good iuice, and light digestion, like as..consumats made of extremities of Calfes, or of Fowles, French barley, [etc.].
1597 J. Gerard Herball (Table Eng. Names), French Lungwoort.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. xcvi. 176 The Vine Leeke or French Leeke growth vp with blades like those of Leekes.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 262 It [sc. Mercurialis] is called..in English French Mercurie.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 625 Verbascum Mathioli. French Sage.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 625 Of French Sage, or woodie Mullein... They are called of the learned men of our time, Verbasca syluestria... In English it is generally called French Sage, we may call it Sage Mullein.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 663 Pulmonaria Gallorum. French Cowslips of Ierusalem.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1161 This Oke [sc. Ilex] is named..in English Barren scarlet Oke, or Holme Oke, and also of some French Oke.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xiii. 1303 Smal yellow floures like them of French Broome.
1599 Househ. Bks. James VI 23 Sept. (Transcr. MS Reg. H), Fyue vnce dredgie and Frensche mustart.
1599 in R. Alison Psalmes sig. Aiiiv, Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith. &c.
1599 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. 203 Seest thou yon gallant in the sumptuous clothes... Note his French-herring bones: but note no more.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 330 The Cantharides or French greene Flies.]
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxvii. 485 The third that is smallest of all three, is the French Willow [Fr. Oziers de France, L. gallicam].
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 21, Great store of furze, of which the shrubby sort is called tame, the better growne, French.]
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 55v, Yet can they no more giue a Cornish word for Tye, then..the French for Stand, the English for Emulus, or the Irish for Knaue.
1602 R. Parsons Warn-word f. 13v, His hawty wyues hayre would soone grow through her french veluet hood.
1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 23 Rubbing Ouer my poore French, hauing Litleton before me.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 292 His burned stalkes, with strong fumosities Of piercing vapours, purge the French disease.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 380 Who beare vpon their French-sicke backs [Fr. leur corps de verole rongez]..Farmes, Castles, Fees.
1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. G2v, The french maid taught me manners.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall ix. sig. C3, So french hes men beene in their fashions.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders i. xv. 89 Because Erasmus calleth them ocreas, I have translated them bootes; we may not thinke that they were like French bootes [Fr. des bottines faictes à la façon des nostres], but such as might be worne with shoes.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. A3, Ile hold her by the fore-top fast ynough; Or like the French Moale heaue vp hayre and all.
1607 (▸?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) i. 51 For all thy frankish fare I will not doe after thy red.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 34 Oyntments that are prepared against the French or Spanish-pox.
1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories sig. Yv, I haue seene an old record in French verses, that at Karlavarock in Scotland in the time of King Edward the first, Evmenions de la Brecte, (so is hee there named) bare Gules.
1611 J. Donne Ignatius his Conclaue 30 This French-spanish [L. Gallo-Spanicum] mungrell, Ignatius.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues, Perdrix gaille,..the great browne-bodied, and red-legd Partridge, the French Partridge.
1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares v. sig. L2, If they bee poore they shall..bee giuen to Surgeons Hall, to bee stampt to salue for the French mesells.
1612 J. Webster White Divel (Rtldg.) 34/2, I have a rare French rider.
1612 T. Wilson Christian Dict. Pref., It is necessary in Grammar Schooles, that Children which learne French, Latine, or Greeke, haue their Dictionaries and Lexicons allowed them.
1612c W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. x. 121, I haue drunck often of the rath wyne, which..people haue made full as good as your French-Brittish wyne.
1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque sig. H1v, May the French Canniball eate into thy flesh And picke thy bones.
1614a J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 39 Heiring a France man..teache the Greik grammer.
1616 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. 42 Wel. Rare! your cousins discourse is simply drawn out with oathes. E. Kn. 'Tis larded with 'hem. A kind of french dressing, if you loue it.]
1616 J. Budden tr. Aerodius Disc. Parents Hon. 4 C. Flaminius..which enacted the law about the partage of some french grounds.
1616a Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iv. 30 Pist. M. Fer: Ile fer him, and firke him, and ferret him: discusse the same in French vnto him. Boy. I doe not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firke.
1616a Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 34, I had as liefe be a Lyst of an English Kersey, as be pil'd..for a French Veluet.
1616a Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 173 If but a dozen French Were there in Armes, they [etc.].
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. iv. 92 They take plenty of sea-fishes, which they Salt, and..grow rich by selling these commodities, as likewise Spanish and French Salt, and like trafficke.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 144 The curled Mallow, called of the vulgar sort, French Mallowes.
1623 Certaine Excellent & New Inuented Knots & Mazes 19 A French Knot.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 205 It was to be suspected I had robbed the French men in New France or Cannada.
1626c H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1922) II. 201 These lawes war..translated out of Franche into Duche.
1629 Dumfries Test. I a. 215 Ane blak cloak of frynshe claithe.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (1656) 240 They [sc. Primula Auricula] are called by divers women French cowslips.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xix. 587 The French pippin is also a good fruit and yellow.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxix. 340 The red Sattin flower, although some foolishly call it, the red or French Honysuckle.
1629 T. May tr. Martial Epigrams sig. G5, If a woven purple coverled [sic], And fine french lawne adorn'd thy downy bed.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. lxxxiv. 397 (caption) Oxalis franca seu Romana. Round leaued, or French Sorrel.
1634 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 699 The French Eves to keepe the water from the building.
1634 tr. L. Lessius Hygiasticon 59 If we were but half as wise as we ought to be, there need none of all this ado that we make, about this and that kinde of Manchet, Dutchbread, and French-bread.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 168 If any place be more French then Paris.
1637 J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure sig. G3v, Your singing, dancing, riding, and French-master.
1638 Inv. Viscountess Dorchester in Notes & Queries (1953) 157, 1 French bedstead with furniture of black cloth.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xvi. 276 Make it up into pils somewhat bigger then a French Walnut.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 336 If the bone be not out, then put in a French Rowell a little beneath the stifling-place.
1640 J. Selden Briefe Disc. Power Peeres & Comons 1 William then Duke of Normandy..renowned for many victories he had fortunately atchieved against the Franch King.
1641a J. Webster & T. Heywood Appius & Virginia (1654) iii. 28 Your French flye applied to the nape of the neck for the French Rheume.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xii. 156 Yet since the last Conquest much French hath got in.
1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat.Tongue 243/1 A French-heeld-shoe, Mulleus.
1650 (title) A French-English dictionary, compil'd by Mr Randle Cotgrave: with another in English and French. Whereunto are newly added the animadversions and supplements, &c. of James Howell Esquire.
1651 C. Love Strange & Wonderful Predict. sig. Av, As to Monsieur Jurieu's predictions, relative to the French Revolution, they point out so clearly part of what has already come to pass, in France, [etc.].]
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iii. iii. 24/2 Car. Listen then while I anatomise my whole discourse from the head to the heel.., though your heel were a Polonian, or a French heel, which is the fashion.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvii. 186 St. Foyne is a French Grass much sowed there, upon their barren, dry, hasky Lands.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlviii, Such is the nature and complexion of the frenches that they are worth nothing, but at the first push.
1655 G. Markham Perfect Horseman 66 Finding his body dry, run slightly over it with your Curry-comb, after with the French Brush.
1655 Markham's Perfect Horseman 37 You shall cause to be made of Iron a Neck of a spur, an handfull or more long, having at the one end set a sharp Rowel as big as a great French Rowel.
1655 S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 20, I suppose many know better than I can Inform them, who for the most part are supplied with Dutch or French Brandy.
1655a T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus (1658) xxxi. 31 Take..a pint of French wheat flower.
1657 Speech Fife Laird in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 30 French-gows cut out and double banded.
1658 tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 102 You may..teach them to speak good French, now you are perfectly Vn-Gasconated.
1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden i. 9 French furze..will grow very spacious and to great flockt bodies in few years.
1660 R. May Accomplisht Cook vi. 162 French Toasts. Cut French Bread, and toast it in pretty thick toasts on a clean gridiron, and serve them steeped in claret, sack, or any wine, with sugar and juyce of orange.
1660 tr. R. Arnauld d'Andilly Manner of Ordering Fruit-trees iii. 53/2 The Holm Oak, or French Oak, which never casts its leaves, but is alwayes green.
1661 Burneby Specif. Patent 133, That sort of barley commonly called..French barley.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist 137 A Woman far gone in a Scurvie,..ful of spots and knubs as big as French Nuts about her body.
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 69 Suppose English Cloth were sold at six shillings a Yard, and French Canvas at eighteen pence the Ell.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 58 in Sylva, Golden-pepin, French-pepin, Kirton-pepin.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 80 in Sylva, The Squib-pear, Spindle-pear..and French Wardens.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 100 As no man of his own self catches, The Itch, or amorous French-aches.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 11 Oct. (1971) V. 295 Captain Titus told us the perticulars of the Frenche's expedition against Gigery, upon the Barbary Coast.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. 82 Great French Bedds full of found Children, sons of Batchelors, Priests Heirs, Bridewell Orphans.
1665 Another Coll. Philos. Conf. (Bureau d'adresse et de rencontre, Paris) cxlvi. 183 Amongst all Nations there is none to whom the vice of Levity is more imputed then to the French. Caesar who had long convers'd with them, frequently objects the same to them.
1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 12 Every hedg almost abounds wth female or French Mercury.
1669 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 557 The roofe..shalbe a sufficient strong French roofe to be made after the best manner hipt of[f].
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 120 A six-penny French loaf.
1673 Hudson's Bay Co. Minutes (1942) 59 That Mr. Kirke bee desired to treate for provideing Such french goodes as may be necessary.
1674 R. Boyle Tracts: Suspicions about Hidden Qualities of Air 9 Some pieces of a French rose..secur'd in a third [receiver].
1674 R. Hooke Diary 9 Nov. (1935) 129 He gave me 2 little pencils of French chalk.
1675 London Gaz. No. 979/4, A strait bodied Coat, with French Pockets.
1675 Woman turn'd Bully, Take my best French Point, tomorrow, for thy witty French Wheedle.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 83 This is called, (Erroniously) the Flat-French-Tuning; but might more properly go under the Name of Sharp.
1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius i. sig. Ev, Cassidony, vulg. cast me down, or French lavender, Stæchas.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 42 'Tis hard to say..who imported the French Goods.
1680a Ld. Rochester in Poems on Affairs of State (1697) 165 Nicely chuse, and neatly spread, Upon your Cheeks the best French Red.
1682 in J. H. Wilson Court Satires of Restoration (1976) 82 Swears and fucks and all the while's so French!
1682 Loyal Protestant & Domestick Intelligencer 7 Mar. [2]/2 (advt.) Any Gentleman may be furnished with Trumpets, French horns, Speaking Trumpets.
1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. i. 30 French Lungwort with smoother and more cut leaves.
1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 27 This Man of War, this French-bred Hero.
1685 A. Tyler Mem. Life & Actions Jhon the Great iii. 34 A fondness in his French-born-Queen.
1685 F. Cheneau (title) French Grammar enriched with a compendious and short way to learn the French tongue in a very short time..; and a very rare way to find out all the articles, nouns, pronouns [etc.].
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation 243/2 The Pears for Baking. The French Warden. The Spanish Warden. [Etc.]
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 11 Rub him [sc. a horse] all over with the French Brush, beginning at his forehead.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation vi. 217/2 There are also Colours which proceed from Berries, as Bay-Berries, French-Berries, &c. that make a good yellow.
1687a W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) iv. 85 The value of the French commodities brought into England.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 72/1 The French Sage, have them grow in bunches at the top, several leaves coming out together round the joints of the stalks.
1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 29 The easie Cure of the French Complement.
1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair ii. i. 13, I have bred thee to the very Achme and Perfection of Bury Breeding, which is inferiour to none in this our Island; Dancing, Singing, Ghittar, French Master.
1693 W. Wycherley Gentlem. Dancing-master i. 14 An extreme passion, dear Sir, you are so French, so mightily French, so agreeable French.
1698 R. Ainsworth Most Nat. Way of Inst. 26 Children, after having learn'd English, are in a Years time ordinarily taught French, or Italian, and that with Ease and Pleasure, both to themselves and Master.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, French Gout, the Pox.
1699 W. King Dialogues of Dead 59 Caesar when he had Subdu'd France, and wrote his Commentaries, could not have Printed them.
1702 Act of Tonnage & Poundage, & Rates of Merchandize 112 French Canvas and Line broad for Tabling, being an Ell and half Quarter and upwards.
1702 Act of Tonnage & Poundage, & Rates of Merchandize 116 French Lawns, the piece.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3928/4, A bay Nag..all his Paces, and had lately a French Rowel in the inside of the near Leg behind above the Hock.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4032/4, 11 Pieces of single French Brandy.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) at Alleluja, An Herb otherwise call'd Wood-sorrel, or French Sorrel.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry ix. 544 The English Warden, the French Warden, and the great Spanish Warden,..are excellent Baking Pears.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4509/3, Her Cargo of about 1000 Bushels of French Salt, more or less.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg i. 6 Their Frowns, French shrugs..Laughing [etc.].
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 350. ⁋1 An Engagement between a French Privateer..and a little Vessel of that Place.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 9 One Hunt Master, call'd the Hope-Gally, a small French-built Snow belonging to Mr. James Vaughan of Bristol.
1713 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) , Amel-Corn or French-Rice, a kind of Grain.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal soc.) 28 43 Cassidony or French Lavander... This famous Medicinal Plant grows in many Parts of Spain, Portugal and France.
1715 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 242 Broad Phlome, Yellow or French Sage,..Phlomis fruticosa.
1715 T. Burnet Second Tale of Tub xvii. 189 First, rode a Post-Boy, sounding with a French Horn a Fox Chase.
1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 2 (ed. 2) iii. 62 The French Willow is also one of the Dwarfs of this Chapter.
1719 A. Smith Lives & Robberies Most Notorious Highway-men (ed. 5) I. 224 The best Masters in London..not being able to shew such Footing as he did in his great riding French boots.
1719 R. Steele Spinster 5 A French Point or Flanders lac'd Head, Ruffles and Tucker.
1719 tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Compl. Herbal I. 126/2 Auricula Ursi, Bear's-Ear;..French Cowslip.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 13, I could speak but little French.
1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry I. 338 The French use the Word Massacree, for a Head Caboched.
1722a E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 277, I could have no prospect of mowing a good swarth in the French-grass.
1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 139 Mercurialis annua glabra vulgaris... French mercury the male and female. On the Sea Beach near Ryde in the Isle of Wight plentifully.
1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) , Rencontre, or au Rencontre, is a French Phrase signifying, that the Face of a Beast stands right forward, as if it came to meet the Person before it.
1726 N. B. Farrier's & Horseman's Dict. 377/1 Curry or brush him over with a French brush down his Temples.
1727 S. Colliber Columna Rostrata iv. 84 The English, likewise attacking the French city of Quebec in North-America, reduced it.
1728 Chambers's Cycl. II. at Staircase, 119/1 French Flyers, which fly, first directly forwards, till they come within a Length of a Stair of the Wall; [etc.].
1728 J. Woodward Catal. Foreign Fossils i. 3 in Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils, Red French chalk.
1730 tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Compl. Herbal II. 349/2 Porrum sylvestre... Wild French Leek, or Vine Leek.
1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. 623 Walnuts are in the Welsh Language called French Nuts.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict., Napus, the Navew or French Turnip.
1733 E. Budgell Bee IV. 341 A French-Celtick, or French-British Dictionary..useful and curious..for finding the Etymology of several French and British Words.
1733 Sch. Miniature 24 If you use Naples Yellow or French Pink instead of Masticoat and Gamboge, you will have another sort of Yellow.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 15 Take French Flies..and a few Drops of Vinegar.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 304 Several annual Flowers, as the..French Marygold, French Apple, Convolvulus..and others.
1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 10 Jan. 3/1 David Delescure Reader of the French Church, teaches French and English in a facil and easy Method, either at home or abroad.
1738 W. Plunkett New Method Farming 25 To prevent further Mistakes as to French Drains.
1740 Hist. Jamaica 207 If any Servant..happen to have the French-pox.
1742 R. West Let. 4 Apr. in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 190 [Racine's] language is the language of the times, and that of the purest sort; so that his French is reckoned a standard.
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman I. Feb. 139 The green French Pippin, green at the Ripest; which is a Winter-Apple, and answers all the Character that may be given a good bearing, large, keeping, pleasant Apple.
1745? A. Rothwell, Perfumer 1/3 Powders, Creams, and Washes for the Skin. Carmine French Rouge.
1746 C. Macklin Henry VII v. iv. 93 Lord Dawbney..hath dragg'd thence our French-made Monarch.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 36 Some little French Loaves, about the Bigness of an Egg.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvii. 147 (heading) Of Made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Muffins, &c.
1747 Newcastle Gen. Mag. 188/2 His Lilly Fingers have been pidling about every Lady's French Pocket that came in his Reach.
1747 W. King Toast ii. 48 One was censur'd for combing her Eye-brows with Lead, And another for spreading a Grain of French Red.
1748 Case Re-stated 50 We could not if we would, conquer the French American Colonies.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. ix. 75, I am so far from desiring to exhibit such Pictures to the Public, that I would wish to draw a Curtain over those..in certain French novels.
1750 P. Collinson Let. 22 Feb. in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 307 Our Common Furze..is vulgarly Called French Furze.
1751 J. Fauchon French Tongue made Easy to Learners Introd. sig. c, This Person left off being a Journey-man Printer, to constitute himself a French Teacher.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 115 My French maid, whom I had sent for some of my cloaths, was dogged in her return.
1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 16 Our pretty Gentlemen..sputter nothing but bad French in the Side-boxes at Home.
1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 25 French Barley is skinned, and has the Ends ground off.
1754 London Mag. July 558/2 But who would exchange the brilliancy of the diamond for the faint lustre of French paste?
1757 tr. J. G. Keysler Trav. through Germany II. lix. 395 The clock of this church strikes the hours after the French and German method of computation..; in Naples there are more French clocks, as they are called [Ger. man..mehr von der so genannten französischen Uhr..weis], than in any other city in Italy.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 246 Germany bravely defended against the French and Bavarians.
1759 H. Howard Choice Spirits Museum 8 He'd curb the poor Steed with a French Bit & Bridle.
1759 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 575 How do you think we warmed and amused ourselves? Why I taught them French Fox.
1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 11 Acetosa rotunda... Garden or French sorrel, with roundish leaves and ears.
1766 P. Playstowe Gentleman's Guide in Tour Through France 72 Those judicious French-bred physicians.
1769 J. Skeat Art of Cookery at May, French Toast.
1769 Polit. Reg. Sept. 120 The commission or instructions allowing the French-born popish subjects a share in the legislature.
1770 G. Washington Diary 28 Mar. (1976) II. 226, I planted three french Walnuts in the New Garden.
1771 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 2) Dict., Gyron,..this word is the French for bosom.
1771 C. G. Powys Passages from Diaries (1899) 146 It's stucco'd of a French grey.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 451 He followed the trade of a miller, and maker of French barley.
1772 Compl. Lett.-writer xxxii. 222 Mrs. Finch the Milliner, waited on her with a fine French Gauze Suit, which she had ordered her to bring.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. i. i. 11 It is particularly famous for the cure of the French disease.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 182 Which have made our..idiom so very French-sick..that [etc.].
1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 205/2 French Mallow. This species has a trailing, branching stalk.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 120 It was eighteen feet and an half, French measure, in length.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 87, I met with this species at Scarborough, where it is called the French Ray.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. v. 133 Buckthorn... The juice of the unripe berries is the colour of saffron... These are sold under the name of French Berries.
1777 D. Garrick Let. 6 Jan. in Lett. of Garrick & Spencer (1960) 81 Monsieur Letexier is to perform Pygmalion..in French.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 437 Wall Hawkweed. French Lungwort.
1778 Catalogus Arborum et Fruticum (Royal Bot. Garden Edinburgh) 17 Rosa gallica... French Rose.
1778 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) 390 Take one pound of bitter-almonds, blanch and beat them very fine in a mortar; put in the whites of four eggs, one ounce of French white of Trois.
1779 M. Patten Diary (1903) 400, I went to our shugar Camp and covered some fire steads with brush where we had Cabbage and french Turnip seed sowed to preserve them from Cattle.
1780 J. Hope Thoughts 81 You will there see some of those lanthorn-houses I have before mentioned, and by them you may judge, if my remarks on French windows are agreeable to reason.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 375 His stock a few French phrases got by heart.
1782 J. Price Some Observ. Publ. intitled Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 13 Mr. Mackintosh being the son of a Scotch Planter, by a French Creole, of one of the West India Islands.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 369 French Honeysuckle, which is distinguished..by its jointed, prickly, naked, straight legumes.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 546 Her tott'ring form Ill propp'd upon French heels.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 670 His address, if not quite French at ease, Not English stiff, but frank, and formed to please.
1786 F. Eppes Let. 31 Aug. in T. Jefferson Papers (1958) XV. 631 A man..capable of teaching our girls French English erethmatick and musick.
1788 D. Monro Treat. Med. & Pharmaceut. Chym. III. 319 Prunum Gallicum... French plum, or common prune.
1788 E. Blower Features from Life I. v. 55 She had acquired that free familiar air which distinguishes the French provincial ladies; but without their wit and engaging vivacity.
1788 Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxxi. 632 Under the dominion of the Greek and French Emperors, the peace of the city [sc.Rome] was disturbed by accidental, though frequent, seditions.
1788 J. St. John Lett. from France I. xii. 86 The effect of the urns and balusters is lost on account of a large lumpish French roof.
1788 Let. in H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. (new ed.) App. 658 In 1763..there was no such place as an Hotel; the word indeed was not known, or only intelligible to French scholars.
1789 Gibbon let. to Ld. Sheffield Aug. in Misc. Wks. (1837) 127 Are you not amazed at the French revolution?
1789 J. Adam Pract. Ess. Agric. I. iv. viii. 416 This grain [sc. buckwheat] has been much more in use in France, from whence we improperly give it the name of French wheat.
1789 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica (new ed.) 264 French Oak... This beautiful tree..grows to a considerable size, and is generally looked upon as an excellent timber-tree.
1789 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy III. v. 87 The French Swiss peasant [Ger. der Französischer [sic]Schweizerbauer] is as distinct as possible from the peasant of Appenzel.
1791 Times 26 Dec. 1/3 (advt.) From France, Sweatmeats, wet and dry; French vinegars, French mustard, French soup strainers.
1792 Fanny I. iii. 189 He led her into a small room, very elegantly furnished with sophas, a French bed, and every article of modern luxury.
1793 J. Ireland Hogarth Illustr. (ed. 2) III. 246 On the sinister, is a drawing denominated exotics, consisting of queue and bag-wigs, muffs, solitaires, petticoats, French heeled shoes, and other fantastic fripperies.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 9 Their sprightly melodies, debonnaire steps [etc.]..gave a character to the scene entirely French.
1798 Ld. Nelson 28 Sept. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 135 The only remaining French-built Ship of the Line.
1799 H. Neuman (title) A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index.
1799 L. T. Rede Anecd. & Biogr. 398 It was one of the best he ever made for Swan and Buck, and he had made many hundred yards of French velvet.
1800 E. Smith Smith's Trial sig. B, On the 6th day of August in the fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King.
1800 Times 14 Mar. 1/1 (advt.) Trio for two French Horns, and Viola da Gamba.