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

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)

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 Collingridge, George

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 Cather, Willa Sibert

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