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Webster 1913 Edition
Frenchify
French′i-fy
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Frenchified
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Frenchifying
.] [
French
+ -fy
.] To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Frenchify
FRENCH'IFY
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Frenchify
Frenchify
English
Verb
Frenchify (third-person singular simple present Frenchifies, present participle Frenchifying, simple past and past participle Frenchified)
- (transitive) To make (something) more French in appearance or character.
- This café likes to Frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites".
- (intransitive) To become more French.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought):
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