Definition of "Française"
Française
noun
plural Françaises
(rare) A Frenchwoman.
Quotations
The Françaises were considerably younger than the westerners; 90% rather than 77% of them were under the age of thirty.
1997, Leslie Choquette, “The Age of Adventure in an Age of Expansion”, in Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada, Harvard University Press, part I (Modernity), page 158
The baron’s imaginings, nonetheless, bring difference back (the unknown) into the familiar space of sameness by measuring the beauty of the “femmes sauvages” against familiar French frames of reference: the Françaises.
1999, T[racy] Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Representing Sarah—Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Vénus hottentote, ou haine aux Françaises”, in Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, Duke University Press, page 35