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Definition of Gallicizes
1. gallicize [v] - See also: gallicize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallicizes
Literary usage of Gallicizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1896)
"Biard merely gallicizes the word. Placentia is the chief seat of French settlement
in Southern Newfoundland.— See Howley's Ecclesiastical History of ..."
2. Introduction to the Science of Language by Archibald Henry Sayce (1900)
"The Frenchman " gallicizes " the words he borrows or the proper names he uses
just as the Englishman ..."
3. Vistas in Sicily by Arthur Stanley Riggs (1912)
"... whose proprietor, himself partly French, thus gallicizes the name of the town's
patron saint, and at the same time adds distinction to his café in the ..."
4. General Butler in New Orleans: History of the Administration of the by James Parton (1864)
"... emphasis in the utterance of his native language, or gallicizes the English * Mr.
Thomas Butler Gunn, the able correspondent of the N&w York Tribune. ..."
5. Gastronomy as a Fine Art: Or, The Science of Good Living. A Translation of by Brillat-Savarin, R. E. Anderson (1879)
"... and others—all due to his love of the graphic and picturesque. Similarly, he
sometimes gallicizes a foreign phrase; as, ..."
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