English

Frenchery

From French + -ery.

Formed from French + -ery

Proto-Germanic *frankô ‘spear’

Proto-West Germanic *Frankō ‘a Frank’

Old English Franca ‘a Frank’

Old English Frencisc ‘of the Franks, Frankish, French’

Middle English French

Today it means

noun French fashions collectively.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Frenchery