Gallicize

American  

[gal-uh-sahyz] / ˈgæl əˌsaɪz /

especially British, gallicise

verb (used with or without object)

Gallicized, Gallicizing

1. (sometimes lowercase) to make or become French in language, character, etc.

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Gallicize British  

/ ˈɡælɪˌsaɪz /

verb

1. to make or become French in attitude, language, etc

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Other Word Forms

• Gallicization
  noun
• Gallicizer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Gallicize

1765–75; < Latin Gallic ( us ) Gallic + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Gallicize Gallicized Gallicizing

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

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 Leblond de Brumath, Adrien

It was only when the Bonapartes changed their name to a French one that your great-grandfather Gallicized ours.

From The Isle of Unrest by Merriman, Henry Seton

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

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