gin and French
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the use of French as a shortened form of French vermouth, distinguished as being usually drier than Italian vermouth.
Noun[edit]
gin and French (plural gin and Frenches or gins and French or gins and Frenches)
- A cocktail of gin and dry vermouth.
- 1930, Ethel Mannin, Confessions & Impressions, page 177:
- Tearle replied that gin-and-French and virginian cigarettes would do for him.
References[edit]
- Fowler's Modern English Usage, s.v. "plural anomalies".