Definition of Gallicism

1. Noun. A word or phrase borrowed from French.

Generic synonyms: Loan, Loanword

Definition of Gallicism

1. n. A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

Definition of Gallicism

1. Noun. A loanword borrowed from French ¹

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Definition of Gallicism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallicism

galliardise
galliardness
galliards
gallic
gallic acid
gallica
gallican
gallicanism
gallicas
gallicise
gallicised
gallicises
gallicising
gallicism
gallicisms
gallicization
gallicizations
gallicize
gallicized
gallicizes
gallicizing
gallied
gallies
galliferous
galliform
galliforms
galligaskins
galligu

Literary usage of Gallicism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Periods of European Literature by George Saintsbury (1899)
"... ITS AIMS AND PATTERNS—INSTANCES OF Gallicism—LITERARY THEORY ... 'GUIDE'—Gallicism AFTER 1700—REVIEWING; SATIRE AND POETIC : LUZAN. PORTUGAL ! ..."

2. Outlines of English Literature by Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1866)
"... Century—Protectorate—Gallicism — Restoration — Eighteenth Century—Proportion oi Saxon in English. . / THE most ancient inhabitants of the British ..."

3. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"... History Gallicism; an idiom of the French language, employed in an expression, or in the construction of a sentence belonging to another language. ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Condemned as a Gallicism in 1795, but used by Burke (Todd). —F. d<ranger, to disarray; ..... Gallicism ..."

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