Crossword-Solution: GALLICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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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| French idiom | 1 answer |
| word or idiom borrowed from French | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GALLICISM (5)
All this was a brilliant monologue on the part of the duchess, who, like many of her country-women, was a person of an affirmative rather than an interrogative cast of mind, who made _mots_ and put them herself into circulation, and who was apt to offer you a present of a convenient little opinion, neatly enveloped in the gilt paper of a happy Gallicism.
But this association proved so helpless that it could not even hinder the invasion of Gallicism in the eighteenth century.
His style is more deeply tainted with Gallicism than that of any other English writer with whom we are acquainted.
Now England is so rich that if you keep down to any _Continental_ sum, you give a false impression in England of the importance on the spot.” “And so we are to falsify figures? In the first of these legends it was double the truth; and, as I read, it enlarges--oh, but it enlarges,” said Ina, with a Gallicism we shall have to forgive in a lady who spoke five languages.
Descending, the eye fell upon yellow and green covers, dozens of French novels, acquired at any time from the year of his majority up to the other day; in the mass, they reminded him of a frothy season, when he boasted a cheap Gallicism, and sneered at all things English.