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GALLICISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gallicism mean?
• GALLICISM (noun)
The noun GALLICISM has 1 sense:
1. a word or phrase borrowed from French
Familiarity information: GALLICISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word or phrase borrowed from French
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gallicism" is a kind of...):
loan; loanword (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)
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"If the water is available you need not clean up with sand." (Arabic proverb)
"Forbidden fruit tastes best." (Czech proverb)