The process of making something French in character, style, or language, or adopting French customs and culture.
From French 'gallique' (relating to Gaul/France) + '-ization' (suffix meaning process). The root comes from Latin 'Gallia' (Gaul, the ancient name for France) and evolved through Middle French to describe the cultural transformation process.
This word captures a real historical phenomenon—during the medieval period, Norman French so heavily influenced English after 1066 that English became riddled with French vocabulary; gallicization was literally reshaping how people spoke and thought across Europe.
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