Modern French
Proper noun
Meaning
Modern French
French spoken after the fifteenth century.
Examples
It is dreadful to think of Paris in German hands but what preoccupies me still more is what is going to happen to modern French art and the younger artists.
one day [c. 1905-07], Kirchner brought with him a volume from some bookstore with pictures of Meier-Graefe about the modern French artists. We were enthralled.
In the film, she pronounces François Villon as "Francis Villain", and the Leslie Howard character corrects her, saying the double el is silent, as it approximately is in Modern French.
Modern French orthography has restored the spelling une heure.
Modern French orders of knighthood include women, for example the Légion d'Honneur ( Legion of Honor ) since the mid-19th century, but they are usually called chevaliers.
The name was supposedly derived from a Breton language term meaning "stone table" but doubt has been cast on this, and the OED describes its origin as "Modern French".