Francophileadj.n.

1875 G. L. M. Strauss Men who have made New German Empire I. iv. 174 It might have sufficed also to bring the Francophile Piedmontese statesmen of the La Marmora school to the fore in Italy.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Jan. 6/2 The Francophil tendencies of the English Court.

1893 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 3 253 Attributed..to Francophile and Pan~slavist influences in St. Petersburg.

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. i, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 89 A Francophil remark that the French were justified in making themselves safe at all costs, was coldly received.

1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry ii. 21 The arms of the short-lived Court of Haiti are recorded in all their francophile elegance in a manuscript preserved in the library of the College of Arms in London.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 23 Apr. 47/3 The..most common version of this popular French snack, which has been showing up on Francophile menus all over town, is not that different from your standard-issue American classic, the grilled ham and cheese.

1888 Times 4 May 5/1 General Bogdanovitch is a notorious Francophile and hater of Germany.

1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 478 Francophobes and Francophiles.

1931 French Rev. 5 80 The proponents of the French are cried down as unpatriotic Francophiles or Marxists.

1991 San Francisco Focus May 118/2 More recently he wowed San Francisco's Francophiles with his Provençal menu.