Frenchwomann.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 6434 Frankis women [a1450 Lamb. Frensche wymen] wild þei non take.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. v. cxix. f. lvi/2 He [sc. the king] had to wyfe..a frenshe woman that was cristened, & had receyuyd hir vpon condicion that he shuld suffer hir to lyue after hir lawe.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. H There is no Seamster can make a bande or a shirt, so well as his wife..bicause the filthy queane weare a craunce and is a Frenchwoman forsooth.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 i. iii. 143 Did you not proud French-woman.

1659 A. Conway Let. 15 Apr. in Conway Lett. (1992) iii. 157 She is a French woman but..she..will be very fitt for me.

1727 J. Lewis Hist. & Antiq. Abbey & Church of Favresham ii. vi. 77 These Nuns were supposed by Archdeacon Harpsfield to have been Frenchwomen, because Walter Reynolds..gave and prescribed to them Rules and Ordinances in the French tongue for their more easy and better understanding the same.

1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague xviii. 111 I..took my hat, and went to visit the handsomest Frenchwoman at Montreal.

1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris xii. 260 A Frenchwoman..will ever be felt..to be a creature of fascination.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 163 As was said of the letters of the Frenchwomen.

1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 343/1 They visited..that pleasant Paris of old, with its..bearded funny Frenchmen and perfumed funny Frenchwomen.

1963 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 201 We had dinner in the huge shiplike dining room, and were waited on by a little Frenchwoman who was desperately rushing and carrying great laden trays.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 28 Sept. 103/2 Lest we're feeling schmaltz-deprived, the chiseled hero begins romancing a local Frenchwoman he meets in a whorehouse.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. lvii. 467 A Frenchman together with a French woman [L. Gallus et Galla].