Frenchman

Noun

Frenchman (plural Frenchmen)

1. A man of French birth or nationality.
   • A deep-seated misgiving about U.S. Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal. In Hong Kong, anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about “U.S. double-faced diplomacy.”...1953 December 7, “ASIA: The Two Anti-Communists”, in TIME
   • The former recommended that all members of the Chamber of Deputies be elected by the scrutin de liste: that they be elected by all Frenchmen of both sexes over 21 years old.1975, Sue Helder Goliber, The Life and Times of Marguerite Durand: A Study in French Feminism, page 128
2. A home-made tool used by bricklayers to cut excess mortar from newly pointed brickwork.
3. (UK) The red-legged partridge.