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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He was a tall, black-haired, mercurial Frenchman, with an eye like a falcon, who, with only an occasional Gallicism purposely indulged in, spoke American like a native.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
It is a Gallicism from the French "defendre."
From Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 by Mynors Bright
If, however, there were Anglicism on one side, so there was quite as much Gallicism, if not a good deal more, on the other.
From James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay
And this opens a curious question as to how long this Gallicism maintained itself in England.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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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