French Canadian
noun
: one of the descendants of French settlers in Lower Canada
French-Canadian adjective
Example Sentences
the French Canadians of Quebec and other provinces
Word History
First Known Use
1758, in the meaning defined above
- (a) quarter past
- (a) quarter to
- (all) by one's lonesome
- (all) choked up
- (all) for the best
- (all) in good time
- (all) in one whack
- (all) round the year
- (all) the best
- (all) the livelong day
- (all) the more so
- (all) the rage
- (and) not before time (too)
- (as) American as apple pie
- (as) big as life
- (as) blind as a bat
- (as) bold as brass
- (as) clear as a bell
- (as) cute as a button
- (as) daft as a brush
- (as) dead as a dodo
- (as) dead as a doornail
- (as) drunk as a lord
- (as) drunk as a skunk
- (as) dry as a bone