| 词汇 | frenchified |
| 词源 | Frenchified. Since the late 16th century Frenchified has been a contemptuous term for having French manners or qualities. Ben Jonson, the first to record the word, wrote of “Monsieur Fastidious Brisk, otherwise called the fresh Frenchified courti- er.” The phrase once also meant “to be infected with the venereal disease,” this usage recorded as early as 1655. |
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