Frenchificationn.
/ˌfrɛn(t)ʃᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌfrɛn(t)ʃəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Frequently depreciative.
The action of Frenchify v.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > making
Gallicizing1804
Frenchification1834
francization1888
1760 ‘C. Townly’ Courtezans ii. 50 I could have mentioned to her some other Species of Frenchification, that might very possibly have fallen to her Share.
1799 M. Chambers He deceives Himself II. i. 7 I..an't to be frighten'd by your foreignish talk..you ban't no more than a sarvant, says I, Mrs. Frenchification, and I shan't take it of you.
1803 M. Berry Let. in Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) II. 252 Chambery seemed neither the better nor the worse for its ‘Frenchification’.
1834 New Monthly Mag. 40 226 They had assumed all the Frenchifications possible.
1863 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana II. xxv. 265 Where he [sc. Pope] was deemed by his contemporaries to have improved upon Dryden, it was in the more complete Frenchification of Dryden's Style.
1921 Music & Lett. 2 7 English Country Dances..so hit the taste of France that little frenchifications crept in, and they merged into the ‘contre-danse’.
1996 Time Out N.Y. 26 June 115/2 The Frenchification of Little Italy continues with this upscale yet informal newcomer.
2006 R. Willemyns in U. Ammon et al. Sociolinguistics (rev. ed.) III. ix. clxxi. 1763/2 From the split of the Low Countries onwards the region was subject to the same Frenchification process already discussed..for Flanders at large.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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