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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The misery consequent on the great wars, and the powerful reaction against Gallicism throughout Germany, once more caused despised religion to be reverenced in the age of philosophy.
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Mrs. George Horrocks
Fox's Gallicism, too, was a treasury of weapons to Pitt.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Certainly not; for that feeling would naturally diminish in succeeding generations, whereas the Gallicism of our people is on the increase,—in fact its origin is of comparatively recent date.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
But this association proved so helpless that it could not even hinder the invasion of Gallicism in the eighteenth century.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
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