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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
Frenchify .
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Examples
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She shrugged her shoulders in what Hatty calls a Frenchified way.
Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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'Fillet of'/'breast of' - A classic 'Frenchified' elaboration: it sounds so much better than simply 'chicken breast' or 'pork fillet', doesn't it?
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'Fillet of'/'breast of' - A classic 'Frenchified' elaboration: it sounds so much better than simply 'chicken breast' or 'pork fillet', doesn't it?
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The empire of Maximilian and the presidency of Porfirio Díaz were both influential in promoting la comida afrancescada ( "Frenchified" cooking.)
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada 2005
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The empire of Maximilian and the presidency of Porfirio Díaz were both influential in promoting la comida afrancescada ( "Frenchified" cooking.)
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada 2005
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The empire of Maximilian and the presidency of Porfirio Díaz were both influential in promoting la comida afrancescada ( "Frenchified" cooking.)
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada 2005
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Strangely enough, I sometimes hear my Chinese friends--who pronounce the word properly when speaking Chinese--use the 'Frenchified' pronunciation of Beijing when speaking English.
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He was a little man, with what might be called something of a "Frenchified" style about him, but having with it all a bright eye and thoroughly Irish face which, with all his bodily movements, displayed great animation.
The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir
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Instead of the sturdy establishment in prejudice of Bert's grandfather, to whom the word "Frenchified" was the ultimate term of contempt, there flowed through Bert's brain a squittering succession of thinly violent ideas about German competition, about the Yellow Danger, about the Black Peril, about the White Man's
The War in the Air 1906
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But, in a few weeks or months, the ransomed, enlisted and forcibly "Frenchified" inhabitants, discover that the revolutionary right is much more oppressive, more harassing and more rapacious than divine right.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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