Aspenize

Aspenize
 v.β€” Β«Now about 2,600 eked out a living in this town that was still true gritβ€”no resorts and no pretensions. We liked the lack of tourist kitsch or miner chic. A little grim on this wet dayβ€”but real. Definitely not another Aspenized enclave.Β» β€”by Ellen Dudley, Eric Seaborg American Discoveries Oct., 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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