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- verb Alternative spelling of
gallicize .
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Examples
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Gauttier (vii, 60-90): in their desire to gallicise it they have invested it with a toilette purely European and in the worst possible style.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Admiring of the tortuous inventivity of the French and Québecois in particular, faced with pressure to gallicise English neologisms: (mél being the only example I can think of offhand.
French masterclass 2007
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