normandize
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normandize (third-person singular simple present normandizes, present participle normandizing, simple past and past participle normandized)
- To invade Europe.
- 1995, Richard Rhodes, chapter 20, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb:
- The Army Chief of Staff [Omar Bradley] lamented the country's great vulnerability. "All we have right now," [David E.] Lilenthal paraphrases Bradley, parenthetically filling in the blanks he had left in his diary for the sake of security, "but all, is (our A-bomb stockpile). Without that we are helpless to aid our friends and must, if they are overrun, try to hold our foes off from home base; never again able to normandize (invade Europe)."
- 1999, Lisle Abbott Rose, The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950, page 98:
- The United States would never again be able to "normandize," that is, to invade Europe as it had in 1944.
- Alternative form of Normandize
- 1866, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 277:
- Yet, “ normandizing" is not as generally practiced, or as necessary as “percherizing,” for among the large multitude of horses along the sea diast from Nantes to Bordeaux, excellent coach horses are found, such as the horses of St. Gervais, which are natives of the swamps between St. Gervais and Machecaul, resembling the Anglo-Normans in size and structure.
- 1906, Bar Association of Tennessee, Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Bar Association of Tennessee:
- The contest between the king: and the people who resisted his normandizing schemes resulted in the convening of a most important National Assembly.