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Gallicism
[ gal-uh-siz-uhm ]
noun
- 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.
Gallicism
/ 藞伞忙濒瑟藢蝉瑟锄蓹尘 /
noun
- a word or idiom borrowed from French
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Gallicism1
Example Sentences
Netflix querelle 鈥 yes, I鈥檓 going to pepper this with Gallicisms, just try to stop me! 鈥 has served as a piquant microcosm of the larger tensions within the global film industry.
It's only too easy to turn a coolly erotic Gallicism into a ploddingly Anglo-Saxon medical report, or utter filth.
Gallicisms were so fashionable that a stage-hack allowed himself all license in that direction.
Many of his utterances had a sort of French ring and countless Gallicisms could be discovered in his letters.
She talked better French than she, so her diction teacher said; and ever so much more distinguished English鈥攕he never made those slips into Americanisms or Gallicisms that Marise did.
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