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






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... palindrome, paragram^, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms. dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir. dog Latin, macaronics^, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^, chi-chi. figure of speech ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... another essentially non-Shakespearean word, though doubtless once used by Shakespeare; this time a most ungraceful Gallicism. ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne



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