mentionn.
/ˈmɛnʃn/, U.S. /ˈmɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/ 1. † b. in the mention of: with reference to, apropos of. Obsolete.† c. of no mention: not worthy of mention, undistinguished. Obsolete. rare.
a. Originally: the action of calling to mind or commemorating something in speech or writing. Subsequently in more restricted sense: the action or an act of referring to, remarking upon, or introducing the name of a person or thing in spoken or written discourse, often incidentally and as not necessarily essential to the discussion.Frequently in to make mention of (now somewhat formal except in negative constructions).In quot. 1892 short for honourable mention: see honourable adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning
mentionc1300
remembrancea1393
meaninga1400
mention-making1534
mentioning1565
commemoration1576
commenting1597
voicinga1626
memoration1627
citation1640
naming1677
observing1719
commentation1833
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > mention or speak of
to speak of ——c825
sayOE
besayc1200
talk ofc1230
to make mention ofc1300
readc1300
yminnea1325
nevenc1330
to make mindc1350
toucha1375
famea1400
minta1400
clepec1400
rehearsec1405
recitec1436
reckonc1480
mentionatec1525
mention1530
to speak upon ——1535
name1542
repeatc1550
voice1597
commemorate1599
to speak on ——1600
notice1611
quote1612
to make vent ofa1616
memorate1623
mensh1928
society > communication > record > [noun] > action of calling to mind by speech or writing
mentionc1300
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] > mention
mingOE
to make mention ofc1300
attain1447
mentionatec1525
mention1530
mind1530
notice1611
notice1627
cite1691
citate1894
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > mention
i-mindOE
minOE
mindc1350
minninga1400
touchc1400
mention1559
reference1591
mensh1973
c1300 Vision St. Paul (Laud) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 37 Þe soules þat comez in þat prisoun, Of heom nis no mencion.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 10495 (MED) Hyt makeþ mencyun of þe passyun As Ihesu Cryst to deþ was doun.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. 448 Dauyd maketh mencioun he spake amonges kynges.
1459 Draft Will of John Fastolf in Paston Lett. (1904) III. 154 With a scripture aboute the stoon makynge mencion the day and yeer of hise obite.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 757 Mencione off Bruce is oft in Wallace buk.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 2055 Wherfore I toke pen..to make therof mencion.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 76 He..maketh mencion and rehersall of diuerse the wandreynges of Ulysses.
1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. App. vii. 15 Without any mencyon of their Conversation and Livinge.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 7 Doctor Powell..maketh mencion of an Ancient Author.
c1665 L. Hutchinson Life in Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 283 I have heard very honorable mention of him.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 24 So that their Blood may rise, and their Heart may swell at the very mention of it.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. viii I shall make honourable Mention of their Names in a short Preface.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 10 Mar. 73 He grows peevish at any mention of business.
1783 S. Johnson Let. 19 Apr. (1994) IV. 124 Having been..allured to the mention of myself, I shall give you a little of my story.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 482 The mention of their names excites the disgust and horror of all sects and parties.
1877 R. H. Major Discov. Prince Henry xii. 190 The Camaldolese geographer makes no mention of the sources from which he derived his information.
1891 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer II. v. 236 It will explain the two mentions of Lollius in ‘Troilus and Cressida’.
1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 248 ‘If I don't get my “mention”’, she would say passionately, ‘I tell you again it will be intrigue.’
1930 P. G. Trendell Guide to Collection of Lace (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 6 In England there was frequent mention of ‘parchment lace’ in Queen Mary's reign.
1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 85 I was sitting with my colleagues at lunchtime on one of the walls of the partially excavated bath-building of which I have made mention.
1981 Times 29 Apr. 25/5 Favourable mention boosted Smith St Aubyn 6p to 196p.
1984 Broadcast 7 Dec. 50/3 Listener competitions are a popular hook for product mentions and promotional copy.
1994 Arena Sept. 16/1 I think Yuri Gagarin warranted a bit more of a mention than just a namecheck in a caption about Alan Shepard.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > in respect of or with regard to
in wise ofc1290
by (also for) reason ofa1350
as to (the) regard ofc1392
in regard of or toc1392
upon the side ofa1393
with regard toc1392
in respect of?a1425
in this (also that) behalf1458
upon the feat of1483
for (the) respect of1489
as pertains to1526
in order to1526
with respect1556
ad idem1574
on this behalf1581
in or with reference to1593
quoad hoc1601
in point of1605
with intuition to (of)1626
in the mention of1638
in terms of1704
how and about1753
as regards1797
as concerns1816
w.r.t.1956
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 149 There is in the mention of Picture a pretie tale divulged of Lepidus, who [etc.].
1674 J. Milton Paradise Lost (ed. 2) Argt. sig. X5 The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who [etc.].
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > not worthy of notice or consideration
lessOE
smallc1405
unnotablec1454
regardless1557
mentionless1611
unregardable1614
unremarkable1625
inconsiderable1637
of no mentiona1640
unconsiderable1643
unobservable1658
unnoticeable1760
inconsequent1768
unappreciable1801
mousy1812
unnoteworthy1846
nebbishy1973
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffff2v/2 'Tis true, I have been a Rascall, as you are, a fellow of no mention, nor no mark.
d. Military. In full mention in dispatches. A commendatory reference made to a person in an official military dispatch.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > mention in dispatches
mention1898
citation1914
1898 W. S. Churchill in Morning Post 6 Oct. 6/1 To the officer a gratuity, perhaps a ‘mention in despatches’.
1902 (title) List of honours and rewards. Containing all mentions, honours, promotions, &c.
1915 A. M. N. Lyons Kitchener Chaps 81 No, sir, there's no particular cop about these ‘mentions’; only something for your pals to read.
1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard iii. 35 Other people came out of the war with Mentions and worthwhile gongs.
1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 197 Sergeant Labalaba received a posthumous Mention in Despatches.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [noun] > attention to, consideration
regard1348
considerationc1386
circumspection1387
insight1390
mentionc1390
mindingc1449
religiousnessa1475
supervising?a1475
regarding1496
sussy1513
remorse1514
respectc1530
carec1540
re-look1855
c1390 Gregorius (Vernon) (1914) 195 Alle þat herden þis storie rede..And in herte taken heede wiþ good Mencioun, þe pope haþ granted hem to mede And hundred dawes to pardoun.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 1713 Þe first cause and purpos..Of þe Grekis—ȝf ȝe haue mencioun—Was fully set.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > [noun] > a statement or declaration
pretence1440
mentiona1470
profession1526
resolution1594
definitive1595
propound1599
enunciation1628
expression1635
express1646
declarative1651
assert1655
statement1775
enouncementa1856
sayable1957
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 80 Kynge Arthure lette bury this knyght rychely, and made mencion [on] his tombe.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 791 Whan this ermyte had made this mencion he departed.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 176 (MED) Batayles greate and fell discencions, As Bede wryteth amonge his mencyons.
4.
a. British regional in later use. Indication, evidence; a vestige, trace, remnant.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun]
signa1382
stepa1382
ficchingc1384
marka1400
tracesc1400
scentc1422
footstep?a1425
tidinga1440
relicc1475
smell?a1505
stead1513
vestigy1545
print1548
token1555
remnant1560
show1561
mention1564
signification1576
footing?1580
tract1583
remainder1585
vestige1602
wrack1602
engravement1604
footstepping1610
resent1610
ghost1613
impression1613
remark1624
footprint1625
studdle1635
vestigium1644
relict1646
perception1650
vestigiary1651
track1657
symptom1722
signacle1768
ray1773
vestigia1789
footmark1800
souvenir1844
latent1920
1564 in J. L. Fisher Medieval Farming Gloss. (1968) 23/1 Mension, Mention.
1567 in E. Bateson Hist. Northumberland (1893) I. 352 West~warde by an old mencon of a dyke.
1567 in E. Bateson Hist. Northumberland (1893) I. 352 Ye mencyon of an olde dike.
?a1600 Hodgson MS in Northumberland Gloss. 475 The march..between England and Scotland..goeth by an old mension of a dycke called the Marche dyke.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 31 The verie trees are so drowned and ouerwhelmed therein [sc. in snow], that it is not possible to finde any mention of them.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 110 The rest that Homer so much speaks of..there is no mention or token remaining of them.
1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. E 2 b Harke Rachel: I will..fling this middle mention of a man, Into some ditch... Rach. Where haue you laide the legs and battered head?
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 532 It [sc. the earthquake] brought vp the Sea a great way vpon the maine Land, which is carried backe with it into the Sea, not leauing mention that there had beene Land.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 814 Scarce any mention of the houses remained.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 161 Where he moves in the sea, he causeth a mention of his way in the waters.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 89/1 Along the mencion of an old dyke.
b. Shetland. A particle, a fraction; a modicum, a small amount.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount
speckc725
littleOE
somethingc1200
lutewihtc1230
little whatc1384
ouncec1387
lap1393
smalla1400
modicumc1400
nekedc1400
spota1413
tinec1420
nieveful?a1425
handfulc1443
mouthful?c1450
smatchc1456
weec1480
quern1503
halfpennyworth1533
groatsworth1562
dram1566
shellful1578
trickle1580
snatch1592
sprinkling1594
fleck1598
snip1598
pittance1600
lick1603
fingerful1604
modicum1606
thimbleful1607
flash1614
dasha1616
pipa1616
pickle1629
drachm1635
cue1654
smack1693
starn1720
bit1753
kenning1787
minikin1787
tate1805
starnie1808
sprat1815
harl1821
skerrick1825
smallums1828
huckleberry1832
scrimp1840
thimble1841
smite1843
nattering1859
sensation1859
spurt1859
pauchlea1870
mention1891
sketch1894
sputterings1894
scrappet1901
titch1937
tad1940
skosh1959
smattering1973
1891 J. J. H. Burgess Rasmie's Büddie 11 An a yok for da slack o his breeks dan I mak, An taks him a hyst wi a mention o strent.
1898 J. J. H. Burgess Tang 2 He was, as he used to say himself.., ‘jöst a mention aff o da plumb’.
1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (at cited word) If du's poorin me a dram jöst gie me a mention o rum i dis gless.
Compounds
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning
mentionc1300
remembrancea1393
meaninga1400
mention-making1534
mentioning1565
commemoration1576
commenting1597
voicinga1626
memoration1627
citation1640
naming1677
observing1719
commentation1833
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > mention > act of making
mention-making1534
mentioning1565
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1292/1 These wordes..be the wordes of..three of the .iiii. euangelistes, which by the mencion makynge of the Pascha..geue vs here..occasyon to speake of the poynte whiche I before towched.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 21 Without anye mention making of our mutual assurance.
1679 J. Kid in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 5 I bless him,..that ever such a poor and obscure person as I am, should be thus priviledged by him for mentionmaking of his grace.
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mentionv.
/ˈmɛnʃn/, U.S. /ˈmɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/ 1. † c. transitive. figurative. To indicate, give evidence of. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To make mention of; to refer to briefly and without entering into detail; to remark upon incidentally.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > mention or speak of
to speak of ——c825
sayOE
besayc1200
talk ofc1230
to make mention ofc1300
readc1300
yminnea1325
nevenc1330
to make mindc1350
toucha1375
famea1400
minta1400
clepec1400
rehearsec1405
recitec1436
reckonc1480
mentionatec1525
mention1530
to speak upon ——1535
name1542
repeatc1550
voice1597
commemorate1599
to speak on ——1600
notice1611
quote1612
to make vent ofa1616
memorate1623
mensh1928
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] > mention
mingOE
to make mention ofc1300
attain1447
mentionatec1525
mention1530
mind1530
notice1611
notice1627
cite1691
citate1894
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 634/2 I mencyon, I make rehersall or remembraunce of a thyng paste or a person absent, je mencionne.
1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. Ej Wherof Frith wrote thys warnyng to Tin[dale] whyche he here mencyoneth.
1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 55 Md. that ij ameses mensioned in the old inventorey be stolne.
1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 67 Md. that parcells followynge ar mensined in the olde inventore.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. iv. 38 These mentioned by their names, were Princes in their families. View more context for this quotation
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy Pref. sig. A4 I think, I have mention'd but few Things..that are not set in a new Light.
1751 C. Labelye Descr. Westm. Bridge 25 By Means too well known to require my mentioning them.
1858 J. Conington Pope in Misc. Writings (1872) I. 18 It would be a great mistake to suppose that Pope's ‘Pastorals’ are worthy of being mentioned in the same day with any genuine work of Virgil's.
1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance iv. 90 O, don't mention that! I was the only one to blame.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 130 The science of dialectic is nowhere mentioned by name in the Laws.
1913 C. G. Lane Creature-life in Austral. Wilds 59 I must not omit to mention the aquatic, rat-like rodents usually termed ‘water-rats’ in the bush, though known to naturalists as beaver-rats.
1942 J. B. Priestley Black-out in Gretley vii. 169 When anybody..does something or has something that suddenly knocks me sideways, I feel I ought to mention it.
1983 G. Harris Seventh Gate i. 9 Never mention her when the Brigands might hear.
b. transitive. With that-clause as object.
ΚΠ
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. vii. 115 Some men..haue in their bookes and writings no where mentioned nor taught that such thinges should be in the Church.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 60 Give me leave to mention that there lies a City not farre distant.
1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c15 Sept. (1965) I. 223 I am surpriz'd you do not mention where you intend to stand.
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 62 Mr. de Buffon mention'd..we should..resolve the equation.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 569 This case is also reported by Style, who mentions, that Lord Chief Justice Roll said [etc.].
1863 G. MacDonald David Elginbrod III. iii. ix. 158 He mentioned to Miss Talbot that he had been his guest that night.
1929 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff tr. M. Proust Cities of Plain I. ii. ii. 268 I mentioned to him that I had thought I heard him come upstairs.
1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde iii. 67 He forebore to mention that he planned to stop in Rome, a detail..certain to displease Bramley.
ΚΠ
1665 R. Josselin Diary 4 June (1976) 518 The guns mention a great fight yesterday.
2. intransitive. To make reference or allusion in passing. With about, †of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention
sayOE
showa1200
monec1225
roundc1275
specifya1300
sermon1303
nevenc1330
readc1330
reckonc1390
to make meaninga1400
rehearsec1405
express1430
remember1531
mention1559
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 118 Lullus also in his first booke..mencioneth of quint essence.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cij In their letters they mentioned of the obedience vnto Magistrates.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxvjv In the last boke before this, I mentioned of this dukes inuectiues against the Duke of Saxon.
1599 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 199 A Pyramide mentioned of in Histories.
1609 B. Jonson Masque of Queens B 4 b Their little Masters or Martinets, of whom I haue mention'd before.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 1041 No more be mention'd then of violence Against our selves. View more context for this quotation
1792 Elvina I. 32 I mentioned in my last of the kind attention that Mr. Falkland had shewn.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xv. 105 Jack, don't you mention about this?
1925 Redbook May 164/2 I just mentioned about his meeting her and kissing her hand, and I kind of laughed and said Pappa was getting to be quite a sheik.
1990 R. Doyle Snapper (1993) 32 Did you mention about a job for Leslie to him?
Phrases
P1. † b. not to mention it: (used parenthetically) not to any extent worth mentioning. Obsolete. rare.
a. not to mention ——: used to refer to an additional fact or point which reinforces the speaker's case (a rhetorical device suggesting that the full strength of the speaker's argument is not being presented).
ΚΠ
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 Not to mention the learned correspondence which you hold in forreigne parts.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 439 Not to mention several others, Carracio is said to have assisted Aretine.
1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1850) II. Pref. 5 Not to mention the multitudes who read merely for the sake of talking [etc.].
1839 J. S. Blackie in Foreign Q. Rev. 23 279 How the finest lines in Milton (not to mention Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge) have been smothered and mangled by this curious race of syllable counters, no student of English poetry requires to be told.
1871 Overland Monthly Oct. 310/2 The Mission owned some eighty thousand head of cattle then, and over seventy thousand sheep; not to mention a small matter of five or six thousand horses, and about an equal number of mules.
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air ii. 41 There were several navigable gas air-ships, not to mention balloons, in the air.
1958 J. Wain Contenders iv. 68 This gallery was to put on a one-man show and give everyone a chance to see my work.., not to mention buy it and make me rich.
1989 W. Belasco Appetite for Change ix. 215 This was a cuisine considerably less massified than Le Menu, not to mention Swanson.
ΚΠ
1692 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 405 It rain'd and drisled most of the morning, having not rain'd, not to mention it, for a month.
c. to mention no name(s): to refrain from indicating anyone in particular (usually understood to imply that the speaker has a specific person or people in mind).
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1730 T. Cibber Lover i. i. 9 I was happy to Excess, in the Conversation of a young Woman..and, not to be vain, Ladies; nor indiscreet I hope, as I mention no Names [etc.].
1758 G. G. Beekman Let. 16 Feb. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 323 Captain Falls, Moore, and Miller, etc., Can tell You..who it was that bought at the Publick Coffie from Mr. John VanHorne 125 hhds. and gave 80 per Cask.., for my Part I shall Mention no Names.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. v. 92 Let us mention no names.
1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. lii. 117 ‘I thought I could learn to love some one else.’ ‘Poor Phineas, for instance.’ ‘We will mention no names.’
1936 Fortune Oct. 118 Of course, the President mentioned no names when he coined the catch phrase ‘economic royalist’, in his acceptance address last June.
1979 R. Kelly Kill Messenger 195 I mention no names. Cartoon of lovers, families, houses. Why not believe the dream is solid and holds?
d. don't mention it: used to indicate politely that thanks, apologies, etc., which have been offered, are unnecessary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > deprecating thanks or apology
don't mention it1777
1777 C. Reeve Champion of Virtue 8 Pray sir dont mention it, said the peasant, you are as welcome as myself.
1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning I. ii. ii. 264 ‘I am going to leave your house, ma'am; and I wish to settle any little arrears of rent, &c.’ ‘Oh! sir, don't mention it,’ said the landlady.
1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek III. iv. 84 ‘I was just going to swab up that part of the carpet when you came in’, said Zack, apologetically... ‘Oh don't mention it’, answered Valentine, laughing. ‘It was all my awkwardness’.
1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 64 I wanted..to apologize for not having known him in the garden. ‘Don't mention it,’ he enjoined me eagerly.
1991 J. Bow Jane's Journey (BNC) 94 ‘I can't thank you enough—’ said Jane. ‘Don't mention it. I was just passing and saw the smoke.’
P2. Military. to be mentioned in dispatches: to be commended by name for one's actions in an official military dispatch; also in extended use. Cf. mention n. 1d.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > organize military affairs [verb (intransitive)] > be mentioned in dispatches
to be mentioned in dispatches1902
1902 (title) South Africa, 1899-1902. Officers and men of the Army and Navy mentioned in despatches.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 434 I fought with the colours..and was disabled at Spion Kop and Bloemfontein, was mentioned in dispatches.
1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1182/2 Mentioned in despatches. To have one's name appear in a newspaper, a parish magazine, or even on a notice board: jocular.
1975 Times 27 Aug. 20/3 In proud and loving memory of Captain Jocelyn Fulke Dalrymple Radice, The Queen's Bays, mentioned in British and French Army dispatches,..who died of wounds on August 27, 1944.
1995 Q June 130/2 Worth mentioning in dispatches are the hugely hummable title track, the sinuous rhythmically driven Just Wanna Funk With Your Mind [etc.].
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n.c1300
v.1530- french fly
- french flyers
- french foreign legion
- french fox
- french fried potatoes
- french frieds
- french fries
- french furlough
- french furze
- french gauze
- french goods
- french grass
- french grey
- french grunt
- french gurnard
- french harp
- french heath
- french heel
- french hem
- french herringbone
- french honeysuckle
- french hood
- french horn
- french impressionism
- french impressionist