Let's Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As it develops the idea is to "Frenchify" the village. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference
January 8th, 2009 at 4: 12 pm not giving in to the temptation to Frenchify the English Language. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Defense Subcabinet Taking Shape] Reference
In France the name is Les Jouets C'est Nous, but customers Frenchify the English roughly as "toiyz air uze.". From Wordnik.com. [The World] Reference
In Spain, a spokesman for a coalition of truckdrivers, farmers, fishermen and taxi drivers threatened to "Frenchify the conflict.". From Wordnik.com. [Fuel And Fury] Reference
When I slip into ‘English pronunciation mode’ halfway through a phrase, people sometimes get confused, so I tend to chicken out and Frenchify the thing. From Wordnik.com. [caramel shoe shoe] Reference
Frenchify themselves; the only things yet wanting are bags and swords, with which at least I have seen no one walking publicly, but I am told they are worn at court. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
Could this be an ominous sign for Barack Obama denoting the fate of his egalitarian plans to Europeanize and Frenchify our capitalist country and make everything green?. From Wordnik.com. [Roger L. Simon » Nostradamus on the Day of the Massachusetts Election] Reference
"My husband," she said, "Mr. Pownal, tries to Frenchify me a little, sometimes, and I am obliged to indulge him, he is generally so good; but he will never succeed in making anything else out of me than a plain Yankee woman.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Do you think there is any good in helping to Frenchify our army?. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
German nature does Frenchify itself, it can become so extravagantly. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
It was an attempt to Frenchify us a bit, give us time to hang out in cafes. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
I am extremely pleased, for I confess that I think it no easy task to Frenchify your works in your sense. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]
For this George — George Chapone, or (as I have been informed he was always called till Sir Philip chose to Frenchify him) GEORGE CAPON is THE George. From Wordnik.com. [Vicissitudes in Genteel Life] Reference
And then the secular Comtists, Mr. Harrison and Mr. Beesly, who want to 'Frenchify the English institutions' -- that is, to introduce here an imitation of the. From Wordnik.com. [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference
It is incredible how much the English at present Frenchify themselves; the only things yet wanting are bags and swords, with which at least I have seen no one walking publicly, but I am told they are worn at court. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
There’s an excellent alternative to learning the keyboard combination for the accent grave: not giving in to the temptation to Frenchify the English Language. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Defense Subcabinet Taking Shape] Reference
When he found himself about to die, which happened in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended him to preserve carefully the secret of the macaroni, to Frenchify his name, and at length, when the political horizon should be cleared from the clouds which obscured it -- this was practiced then as in our day, to order of the nearest smith a handsome sign, upon which a famous painter, whom he named, should design two queens 'portraits, with these words as. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference
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