Frenchified
See also: frenchified
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- IPA(key): /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪˌfaɪd/
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Adjective
    
Frenchified (comparative more Frenchified, superlative most Frenchified)
- Made French or more French-like.
- 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part II, Chapter 3, page 168:- This life, whose dreary superficiality is covered by the glitter of universal blague, like the stupid clowning of a harlequin by the spangles of a motley costume, induced in him a Frenchified—but most un-French—cosmopolitanism, in reality a mere barren indifferentism posing as intellectual superiority.
 
 
- (slang) Having contracted a venereal disease.
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made French or more French-like
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