Pertaining to France, a country of western Europe, or to its inhabitants. Often abbreviated Fr.Foreign; from a distant or foreign land; hence, strange; uncommon; rare.a variety of grenadine used for ladies' dresses and very durable.Baldness produced by what was called the French disease (morbus Gallicus). Hence used with equivocation.n. The language spoken by the people of France.n. Collectively, the people of France.To prepare according to the French mode.To dress, as a chop, by partly freeing the bones.In metallurgy, to carry out the last step in the refining of metallic antimony, by which ‘bowl metal’ is converted into ‘star metal.’[lowercase] In botany, to appear distorted and unnatural, owing to some abnormal condition of the plant. See frenching.