亚洲网紅露点

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Gallicism

or 驳补濒路濒颈路肠颈蝉尘

[ gal-uh-siz-uhm ]

noun

  1. a French idiom or expression used in another language, as Je ne sais quoi when used in English.
  2. a feature that is characteristic of or peculiar to the French language.
  3. a custom or trait considered to be characteristically French.


Gallicism

/ 藞伞忙濒瑟藢蝉瑟锄蓹尘 /

noun

  1. a word or idiom borrowed from French
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Gallicism1

First recorded in 1650鈥60; from French gallicisme; Gallic, -ism
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Example Sentences

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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.

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It's only too easy to turn a coolly erotic Gallicism into a ploddingly Anglo-Saxon medical report, or utter filth.

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Gallicisms were so fashionable that a stage-hack allowed himself all license in that direction.

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Many of his utterances had a sort of French ring and countless Gallicisms could be discovered in his letters.

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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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