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- verb British Alternative form of
Italianize .
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Examples
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This appeared to be part of a conscious effort to 'Italianise' the team, to train up young stars.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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This appeared to be part of a conscious effort to 'Italianise' the team, to train up young stars.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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At the Military Academy he had formed one almost romantic comradeship with a delicate and reserved youth, some years older than himself, Baron Severino Cassio, to whom he first confided his determination to Italianise himself: to study the language, history, laws, customs of the whole country with a view to preparing for the future.
Cavour Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn 1898
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It is rather smaller, and in its lower stages plainer -- no fault in that; but a little higher it begins to Italianise, and then stops altogether.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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Fosse's idea was to de-Italianise one of Fellini's great unsung films; Simon's job was to sprinkle it with his trademark New York flavourings.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Fosse's idea was to de-Italianise one of Fellini's great unsung films; Simon's job was to sprinkle it with his trademark New York flavourings.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"I half believe it is true, even now; and if not -- well, Helen was acceptable enough in her day, Elena, but I am willing to Italianise, for
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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