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rosbif noun
- a term used in France for an English person
Word Origin for rosbif from French, from English roast beef, considered as being typically English Examples from the Web for rosbif Historical Examples of rosbif
The vulgar French think that the English term for all sorts of roasted meat is rosbif—thus rosbif de mouton—rosbif de porc.
Eliza Leslie
“Rosbif,” said the waiter genially, manifesting himself suddenly beside them as if he had popped up out of a trap.
P. G. Wodehouse
Pour dire vrai, however, the rosbif of England is hardly more scientific than the sun-dried meat of the Tartars.
Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 2 of 2)
Frances Trollope
Both Mrs. Burton and I want a medicine of rest and roast beef as opposed to rosbif.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Thomas Wright
English tobacco, English rosbif—they advertised these in quaintly worded signs.
James B. Connolly