Frenchification
The act or process of making French or more French-like, especially in informal contexts.
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The act or process of making French or more French-like, especially in informal contexts.
The Frenchification of the shopping district is complete: every shop has been redone in a Haussmannian style and baguettes, wine, and accordion music are inescapable.
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(slang) Something that has been made more French or French-like.
The ubiquitous café is just a Frenchification of the old English coffeehouse, providing the ambiance of peaceful al fresco dining without actually moving any chairs outdoors.
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Made French or more French-like.
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A word with two very different lives. In its tamer sense, Frenchified means made more French in style, manner, or character — perhaps overly refined, fashion-forward, or affected with French cultural airs. In older, more vulgar historical slang, it was a euphemism for having contracted a sexually transmitted infection, reflecting old British prejudices that blamed the French for the spread of syphilis. Today the word mostly survives in its cultural sense, used humorously to describe someone who has gone a bit too Parisian.
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