Gallicize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Gallicize it as you wish, make it smart and fashionable as you can.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
As Faye Landes, an analyst at Cowen & Company, a financial services company, told The New York Times last week, Target needs to revive the sheen that once earned it the affectionately Gallicized sobriquet “Tar-Jay.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2014
The former French Vogue editor, who was recently appointed global fashion director for Harper's Bazaar, tried vainly to explain her métier, which boiled down, in her charmingly Gallicized phrasing, to "making happen a dream."
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2012
We have Gallicized," writes Mother126 Mary of the Incarnation, "a number of Indian girls, both Hurons and Algonquins, whom we subsequently married to Frenchmen, who get along with them very well.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond de Brumath
Being somewhat shaken, however, in his first belief of a Portuguese discovery, he was led to adopt a Provençal theory to explain certain words which on these old Gallicized charts, were neither Portuguese nor French.
From The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by George Collingridge
The drama fell into Gallicized hands at the death of Vondel and his immediate disciples.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Some of the Reform Clubs sought to moderate the Gallicizing zeal of the extreme wing.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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