Frenchery is a somewhat dismissive British collective noun for French fashions, manners, or cultural affectations — treating French style as an excessive package deal. The '-ery' suffix (as in 'tomfoolery,' 'knavery') carries a whiff of mockery, framing French influence as affected or overdone. Dated and literary in register, encountered mainly in 19th-century British writing. It reflects historical English ambivalence toward French cultural dominance in matters of taste and fashion.
The hostess had decked the room in what her husband sourly called frenchery — gilded chairs, silk curtains, the works.
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(slang) French fashions collectively.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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