Anglo-Frenchn.adj.
/ˌaŋɡləʊˈfrɛn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡloʊˈfrɛn(t)ʃ/ A. n.† 1. With the and plural agreement. English supporters of the French interest during the French Revolutionary Wars of 1792–1802, considered collectively. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > support of specific dynasty or government > supporter of
Armagnac1420
Anglo-French1796
Napoleonist1814
Bonapartist1815
Bourbonist1820
Orleanist1834
Vichyist1943
Vichyite1943
1796 Times 9 June 3/4 Thus is the car of the Anglo-French drawn by two horses, which pull the same way; but it is to be feared that by hurrying it along..they will overturn and dash it to pieces.
1797 Times 31 Aug. 2/1 The Anglo-French call the Black Cape the Cape of Good Hope.
2. The variety of the French language spoken and written in medieval England.Anglo-French developed after the Norman Conquest of 1066, and remained current in some functions until the mid 15th cent. The term ‘Anglo-Norman’ has traditionally been used in the same meaning (cf. Anglo-Norman n. 2), but ‘Anglo-French’ is preferred by many scholars since this variety was not solely based on Norman French. French in later legal use is normally distinguished as Law French (see law-French n. at law n.1 Compounds 3).
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > varieties of
Gascon1642
Walloon1642
langue d'oïla1682
Limousin1706
Picard1758
Scottish-French1789
Negro-French1819
Poitevin1845
Acadian French1850
Anglo-French1862
Swiss-French1941
Québécois1952
Lyonnais1955
Norman French1990
1862 H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis III. 360 The form ‘south’, or ‘southe’, for ‘sous’, under, is..frequently met with in the Anglo-French of the latter part of fourteenth, and beginning of the fifteenth, centuries.
1882 Notes & Queries 157 543/1 Anglo-French (less correctly called Norman-French) was practically a distinct language from the French of France.
1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 364 The influence of Anglo-French upon English during the whole Middle English period has never yet been sufficiently investigated.
1942 Mod. Lang. Notes 57 636 Simon gives in the original a document in Anglo-French of April 2, 1375.
2003 Mod. Lang. Rev. 98 266 Neither fourteenth-century Anglo-French nor Anglo-Latin reflects a living vernacular rooted in English soil.
B. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or involving both England (or Britain) and France.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective] > and other
French-English1580
Anglo-German1683
Anglo-American1769
Anglo-Welsh1772
Anglo-French1797
Anglo-Russian?1800
Anglo-Turkish?1800
Anglo-Indian1805
Anglo-Irish1810
Anglo-Scandinavian1836
Anglo-Egyptian1838
Hiberno-English1840
Anglo-Jewish1843
Anglo-Norse1872
Anglo-Boer1881
Anglo-Roman1913
Anglo-Soviet1920
Anglo-Arab1923
Anglo-Frisian1955
1797 tr. J. W. von Archenholz Picture of Eng. xi. 315 The number of great houses that have adopted the Anglo-French fashions is still very small.
1855 (title) Diplomatic mystifications and popular credulity; or, The Anglo-French Alliance.
1879 Times 27 Jan. 5/2 At least six months' stability for Anglo-French commerce.
1928 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 27 178 He was a warm advocate of Anglo-French co-operation.
1995 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 139 174 He was very conscious of his own Anglo-French parentage.
2. Of or belonging to the variety of the French language spoken and written in medieval England; = Anglo-Norman adj. 2.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > of Romance languages > French > of dialects of
Poitevin1611
Anglo-Norman1735
Occitanic1847
Occitanian1873
Anglo-French1884
Occitan1945
parigot1974
Swiss-French1979
1884 N.E.D. at -al suffix On this analogy, -aille, -ail, -al became an Anglo-Fr[ench] and E[nglish] formative of nouns of action.
1897 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 18 344 The diffusion of the French language and the rise of Anglo-French literature are quite fully treated.
1934 Times 4 May 10/5 ‘Purrel-way’..may possibly have been a popular corruption of ‘Purallee’—if the ‘people’ knew that Anglo-French legal term.
2004 Mod. Lang. Rev. 99 316 This is by no means an isolated phenomenon in Anglo-French writing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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