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1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D3^v Will you bee Frenchefied with a loue-locke downe to your shoulders?

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 281 Arnoldsonne was frenchefied into Fitz-Arnold.

a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iii. i. sig. D in Five New Playes (1653) Nor his Daughter, That was French born indeed, could ere have clipp'd, And Frenchified our English better, then She counterfeits to Coxcombes that do Court her.

a1666 J. Shirley To E.H. & W.H in MS Rawl. Poet 88 69 There is noe Faith in Clarrett, now I see That Blushing wine doth meerely frenchifie.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela Pref. p. xiii Frenchify our English Solidity into Froth and Whip-syllabub.

1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 125/2 They dressed him in a bag-wig..frenchified him up.

1805 Times 3 Apr. 2/4 It is not merely by marriages that he would Frenchify the Hollanders, since there is an elegant French Theatre lately built.

1852 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1883) II. 363 What a quantity of French words have I used! I suppose that the subject Frenchifies my style.

1907 School Rev. 15 63 The foreign word is simply frenchified with true Parisian breeziness.

1960 French Rev. 33 554 He frenchifies a play as much as he can, often changing it drastically in the process.

2001 Independent 5 Jan. i. 12/5 The Blue Room has been Frenchified, and spruced up in vivid sapphire.

1775 J. Jekyll Let. 19 Aug. in Corr. (1894) 46 'Tis in these domesticated visits one Frenchifies most.

1836 Museum of Foreign Lit. Oct. 108/1 This comes of going to foreign parts—frenchifying and frog-eating—instead of residing at your own hall!

1851 Neuman & Baretti's Dict. Spanish & Eng. Langs. (new ed.) at Afrancesár To Frenchify, to imitate the French.

1920 Bookman Sept. 70/2 The opening of the tale is not promising. McRae blusters, mother frenchifies, the handsome young engineer and the movie man make love to waitress Jane.

1954 Encounter Dec. 18/2 The poets who spoke American best..had all enthusiastically frenchified.

1966 French Hist. Stud. 4 271 Christianize and Frenchify, or convert and assimilate, were regarded as synonymous.

2003 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 16 July 6 The guilty parties..appear to be a number of computers..lacking the required French-language software. It's therefore either frenchify or be ostracized.

1811 Times 2 Sept. 3/3 The frenchifying of such vessels being properly performed.

1893 Overland Monthly July 112/1 The annoying Frenchifying of words (a notebook is a livraison, a clinic a clinique).

1950 G. B. Lanctot in G. W. Brown Canada iii. 64 In all his programme Colbert encountered only one failure: the Frenchifying of the Indians.

2000 B. Geddes World Food: Mexico 26 Even after the emperor and empress were expelled in 1867..the afrancesimiento (roughly, the Frenchifying) and the taste for things French continued.