"take a French leave" meaning in English

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      "form": "took a French leave",
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          "ref": "1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Mrs. Mary Jones, at Brambleton-hall”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 226:",
          "text": "As for Ditton, after all his courting, and his compliment, he ſtole avvay an Iriſhman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his maſter; […]",
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      "form": "takes a French leave",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a French leave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a French leave",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a French leave",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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          "text": "As for Ditton, after all his courting, and his compliment, he ſtole avvay an Iriſhman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his maſter; […]",
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