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  • verb Alternative spelling of gallicize.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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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