Sentence:  “We complain,” he says, "' of a hackneyed and <WSD>cockneyized</WSD> Europe; but wherever, in desperate search of the untrodden, we carry our much-labelled luggage, our bad French, our demand for a sitz-bath and pale ale, we rub off the pale bloom of local color, and establish a precedent for unlimited intrusion." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make vulgar and tasteless.