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A few words posted in French church (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sentence

'a few words' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'posted in french church' is the wordplay.
'posted' becomes 'sent' ('send' can be a synonym of 'post').
'in french' becomes 'en' ('en' can be French for 'in' e.g. en France).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'sent'+'en'+'ce'='SENTENCE'

(Other definitions for sentence that I've seen before include "Punishment awarded by court, or a set of words" , "It makes sense" , "delivered in a few words" , "Grammatical unit and prison term" , "Unit of writing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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