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Make Parisian perhaps strangely iffy about separation, abandoning women
Answer for the clue "Make Parisian perhaps strangely iffy about separation, abandoning women ", 9 letters:
frenchify
Word definitions for frenchify in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French + -ify . Usually contemptuous (Richardson in his introduction to "Pamela," beseeches the editor not to "Frenchify our English solidity into froth and whip-syllabub"). Related: Frenchified ; Frenchifying .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frenchify \French"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frenchified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Frenchifying .] [French + -fy.] To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. --Burke.
Usage examples of frenchify.
Though he was not pleased, he forbore telling Dolley, unwilling to mar her ecstasy in the presence of her tall, handsome, and exceedingly Frenchified son, whose conversation dwelt on French viands, theaters, and races rather than details of the political mission on which he had been sent.
Well, the day before the fair, as we were busy in the forenoon getting the timber out of the vessel, one of my shipmates, who went to the same house, says to me, 'I say, Tom, when I was at the Chequers last night, I overheard Peggy promise to go to the Ryde Fair with that Frenchified smuggling chap.
He has spent his life currying favor with the Cavaliers, the Catholics, and the Frenchified court, and when King James II came to the throne Jeffreys got his reward and became the highest judge of England.