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adjective

French adj. Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).

French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment.

French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window.

French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk.

French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear.

French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely.

French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); called also garland honeysuckle.

French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; called in France cor de chasse.

French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts.

French pie (Zool.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); called also wood pie.

French polish.

(a)

A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added.

(b)

The glossy surface produced by the application of the above.

French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants.

French red rouge.

French rice, amelcorn.

French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope.

French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; called also plum tub.

French window. See under Window.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"French horn" Quotes from Famous Books

... up. Its music was not pretty. There were in the strange weird strain suggestions of gongs, bagpipes, penny whistles, and the humble tom-tom of Bengal. The gentleman who performed on an instrument which seemed a hybrid between a flute and a French horn, occasionally arrested his instrumental music to favour us with vocal strains, but he failed to compete successfully with the cymbals. I do not think the Menghyi was enraptured by the music of the strollers from ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

... the doorsteps, discovered her, and with frantic outcry and outstretched necks ran to find out what it all meant. The signal was taken up by other species and genera. In the stable lot the calves responded as the French horn end of the orchestra; and the youngest of her little brothers, who had climbed into a fruit tree as a lookout for her return, in scrambling hurriedly down, dropped to the earth with the boneless ...

— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen

... fox, Washington usually rode a horse named Blueskin, a fiery animal, of great endurance, and of a dark, iron-gray color. Billy (who was Washington's body-servant during the war) always kept with the hounds; "and, mounted on Chinkling," says Custis, "a French horn at his back, throwing himself almost at length on the animal, with his spurs in flank, this fearless horseman would rush at full speed, through brake and tangled wood, in a style at which modern huntsmen would stand aghast." When the chase was ended, the party would return to Mount Vernon ...

— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

... to the regiment, jailer to the prisoner, father of Elizabeth,—loving man, whichever way you looked at him. He had his French horn in his hands, and was about to raise it to his lips; in a moment more a blast would have rung through the house, for Adolphus was in one ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various

... orchestra would appear to you as what it is—a marvellously balanced organism whose various groups of members each have a different and an indispensable function. You would spy out the instruments, and listen for their respective sounds. You would know the gulf that separates a French horn from an English horn, and you would perceive why a player of the hautboy gets higher wages than a fiddler, though the fiddle is the more difficult instrument. You would live at a promenade concert, whereas previously you had merely existed there in ...

— How to Live on 24 Hours a Day • Arnold Bennett

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