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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
Against the side of the building were posters advertising a French company to play the Gallicized version of an American farce—"Baby Mine"—by Margaret Mayo.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
Tchaikovsky, like Dargomijsky and others less well known, although using popular airs, did not hesitate to present them in a Gallicized or Italianized form in the manner of Glinka.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
The restaurant in question is in Piccadilly, and I am trying to think under which of the categories of our Gallicized observer it would come.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. 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 Rose, John Holland
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