Gallicism
Americannoun
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a French idiom or expression used in another language, as Je ne sais quoi when used in English.
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a feature that is characteristic of or peculiar to the French language.
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a custom or trait considered to be characteristically French.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Gallicism
First recorded in 1650–60; from French gallicisme; see Gallic, -ism
Example Sentences
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This last, however, may be a Gallicism, from étaler.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
A considerable number of French came over in that manner, so that life in California was then, as now, considerably leavened by Gallicism.
From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by White, Stewart Edward
"Another forfeit for a Gallicism," said a Russian writer who was present.
From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
His style is more deeply tainted with Gallicism than that of any other English writer with whom we are acquainted.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Accordingly each group of circumstances which is adjudicated upon receives, to employ a Gallicism, a sort of consecration.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir
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