french leave

1. 1.

   an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell)

   Broaderdeparture

Questions about french leave

What does french leave mean?

french leave means "an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell)".

Is french leave a common word?

french leave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.