Gallicized

First names were Gallicized as well; thus Joseph became Jacques.

An American Apollo Laura Jacobs 2011

The place where he was buried was renamed Sanctus Clodoaldus which after a dozen centuries got Gallicized and transformed into Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris and mostly known to me, anyway as a famous porcelain-producing town in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Of the war... it lies red.... Ann Althouse 2009

Originally a Corsican family of shaky gentility, Jacobin sympathies, and decidedly Italian names, they Gallicized themselves when it looked like they could end up ruling France.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

He employs a wide variety of linguistic idioms, from the archaic civil service language of the chancelleries (put into the mouths of statesmen such as Arakcheev) and the Latin-German pattern of eighteenth-century literary Russian (spoken by the old Prince Bolkonsky) to the Gallicized and sentimental Russian of the early-nineteenth-century salon and the plain speech of the soldiers, peasants, and workmen.

Tolstoy's Real Hero Figes, Orlando 2007

Tolstoy has her do so in the highly artificial style of Gallicized Russian which was in fact the language of polite society used by noblewomen in their letters at that time.

Tolstoy's Real Hero Figes, Orlando 2007

Purlew may have originated in a scribal error, or as a pseudo-etymological spelling, erroneously associating the word with lew, leu, LIEU, place; app. it did not appear in law Fr. till later, when it was prob. taken over from Eng., and Gallicized as purlieu: see quot. 1574 1574 in J.

languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE. 2004

The late Sultan Selim, in his regenerating system, which led him to favour the Christians, found no opposition from the mass of his people, but from the jealous Janissaries; and when the latter had prevailed, the demi-Gallicized grandees of Constantinople easily sunk again into Sunnys.

Travels in Arabia 2003

Artillery by that name, a Corsican who Gallicized his original name of Napolione Buonaparte.

He Walked Around the Horses H. Beam Piper 1934

We may concede that Pettie had read North, or even go so far as to assert with Mr Underhill that he was acquainted with "parts of the Gallicized Guevara," without lending countenance to Dr Landmann's radical theories.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

He called it "Cora-lee," with an implication far from subtle that his sister had at some time thus Gallicized herself, presumably for masculine favour; and he was pleased to receive tribute to his satire in a flash of dislike from her lovely eyes.

The Flirt 1912