Definition of Gallicisms. Meaning of Gallicisms. Synonyms of Gallicisms

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Definition of Gallicisms

Gallicism
Gallicism Gal"li*cism, n. [F. gallicisme.] A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

Meaning of Gallicisms from wikipedia

- Look up gallicism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Gallicism can be: a mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; in general, a French...
- its part, Spain is known by the use of Gallicisms or words taken from neighboring France (such as the Gallicism ordenador in European Spanish, in contrast...
- have entered the English lexicon without ever losing their character as Gallicisms: they remain unmistakably "French" to an English speaker. They are most...
- loanwords from English, ****anese and Spanish. Loanwords in general, primarily gallicisms in both varieties, are more common in Brazilian Portuguese than in European...
- confused a name with the legend Faust. Other theories include racism, Gallicisms, or misspellings. The term "printer's devil" has been ascribed to the...
- still lived in Church Slavonic forms and locutions Abundant and natural gallicisms Everyday colloquialisms of his set Stylized po****r speech by combining...
- Anti-French sentiment (Francophobia or Gallophobia) is the fear of, discrimination against, prejudice of, or hatred towards France, the French people,...
- A pseudo-French expression in English is a word or expression in English that has the appearance of having been borrowed from French, but which in fact...
- and words or expressions literally translated from French (also called gallicisms); others, in contrast, are actually remarkably purist, such as droogzwierder...
- language use to describe a word or usage as incorrect or nonstandard. Gallicisms (use of French words or idioms), Germanisms, Hispanisms, and so forth...