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 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

MacMaster was himself a painter, an American of the Gallicized type, who spent his winters in New York, his summers in Paris, and no inconsiderable amount of time on the broad waters between.

From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Sibert Cather

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 Igor Stravinsky

A Gallicized novelist ought to deal with Gallic characters.

From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair

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