Recent Examples on the WebPlenty of moviegoers adored the clocks, but some people began to complain about the movie’s embourgeoisement, or Disneyfication, to use a word from the following decade. Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 For long, sociologists had debated the embourgeoisement of the working-class in the West—never a very happy term for the processes at issue. Jeet Heer, New Republic, 8 July 2017
Word History
Etymology
French, from embourgeoiser to make bourgeois, from em- + bourgeois