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Definition of Gallicism
1. Noun. A word or phrase borrowed from French.
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gallicism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallicism
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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