Gallicize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Origin of Gallicize
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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
Gallicized forms are also to be found in a few forms like Kirkby-le-Soken, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Alsop-en-le-Dale, Barnoldby-le-Beck.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
A Gallicized novelist ought to deal with Gallic characters.
From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Sinclair, Upton
He was a Georgian Epictetus with a dash of Gallicized grace about him.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
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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