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A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.

form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.

re b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or é-; as, escape, scape, élite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition no…

Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. Shak.

ing zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.

Paint used on the face. [Obs.] "Painted with French fard." J. Whitaker.

A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

A kind of French hackney coach.

Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.

A little piece; a flitter; a flinder. [Obs.] Where's the Frenchman Alas, he's all fitters. Beau. & Fl.

flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

wers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

A long French breakfast roll. Simonds.

most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. Shak. Foraging ant (Zoöl.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. -- Foraging cap, a forage cap. -- Fora…

sooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

A French baggage wagon.