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Definition of Frenchify

1. Verb. Make French in appearance or character. "Let's Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money"

2. Verb. Become French in appearance or character. "This restaurant has Frenchified"

Definition of Frenchify

1. v. t. To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

Definition of Frenchify

1. Verb. (transitive) To make (something) more French in appearance or character. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become more French. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frenchify

1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenchify

French vermouth French weed French window French windows French wire French wires Frenchcore Frenched Frenches Frenchie

Frenchies Frenchification Frenchifications Frenchified Frenchifies Frenchify (current term) Frenchifying Frenchiness Frenching Frenchism

Frenchisms Frenchlike Frenchly Frenchman Frenchmen Frenchness Frenchwoman Frenchwomen Frenchy Frenkel's anterior ocular traumatic syndrome

Literary usage of Frenchify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1816)
"This seems a compliance with that tendency in the present day to Frenchify the Spanish language; that same inducement which has led some courtly writers ..."

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