[f. FRENCH a. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being French or of displaying French characteristics.
1816. Southey, in Quarterly Review, XIV. Jan., 357. The convenient confidants, the puling love, and the nauseating frenchness (if we may so call it) of the French stage, he [Alfieri] rejected with the instinct of original genius, and the indignation of a manly character.
1850. Chamb. Jrnl., XIV. 26 Oct., 257/2. We are not so much inclined to smile at the Frenchness of the notion as we were at the outset.
