French name for a bit of a renegade (4)
I believe the answer is:
rene
'french' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'name for a bit of a renegade' is the wordplay.
'name' becomes 'ene' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'a bit of' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'renegade' is 'r'.
'ene' put after 'r' is 'RENE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rene that I've seen before include "- Lalique, glass artist" , "-- Magritte, artist" , "- Descartes, French mathematician" .)