Gallicism
or gal·li·cism
a French idiom or expression used in another language, as Je ne sais quoi when used in English.
a feature that is characteristic of or peculiar to the French language.
a custom or trait considered to be characteristically French.
Origin of Gallicism
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How to use Gallicism in a sentence
Gallicisms were so fashionable that a stage-hack allowed himself all license in that direction.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziMany of his utterances had a sort of French ring and countless Gallicisms could be discovered in his letters.
Thomas Jefferson | Gilbert ChinardCienfuegos was blamed for an unsparing use of both archaisms and gallicisms.
(a) archaisms, (b) dialect, (c) classicisms, and (d) gallicisms.
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I | Edmund SpenserLike many other Gallicisms, it lingered in Scotland down to our own time.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine | William Carew Hazlitt
British Dictionary definitions for Gallicism
/ (ˈɡælɪˌsɪzəm) /
a word or idiom borrowed from French
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