How To Use Gallicism In A Sentence
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Brushing aside the Gallicism of his formal dip at her hand,
Tender is the Night
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III. i.185 (151,7) [I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom] _To fly his doom_, used for _by flying_, or _in flying_, is a gallicism.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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“Another forfeit for a Gallicism,” said a Russian writer who was present.
War and Peace
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English he seemed to write as readily as French, although a strong Gallicism would every now and then slip from his pen, as it slipped from his tongue.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861
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On the other hand, in The King's English, orient is criticised as a 'Gallicism'.
On being orient(at)ed
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Though her English is fluent, I assumed this somewhat peculiar phrase was a Gallicism, and I merely nodded solemnly in agreement.
Winners
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I shall not discuss the cause of this change in the use of the possessive, though it seems to me an evident Gallicism, nor shall I open the question of whether it is a mere passing fad or the beginning of an actual alteration in the language.
A Librarian's Open Shelf
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We also tossed the narcissistic Gallicism “memoir,” which we decided was a linguistic mongrel of “me” and “moi.”
Last Words
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The text is larded with distracting verbal tics, including a smattering of needless Gallicisms—such as noting that she had problems with her "foie" aka, liver—local color thickened to impasto.
The Sound of France
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In one of these trimly built cars was a party of four young men whose spirits seemed to be at present well above the level of successful Gallicism: in fact, these four young men were almost hilarious.
Dubliners
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‘Resume’ must be a Gallicism meaning ‘summarize’ — think ‘resume’ (three syllable) meaning ‘summary (of qualifications)’.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Bulgarians Think of Us:
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Coleridge has a note dated 1800 (_Literary Remains_, i. 292), on "egotizing in _tuism_" but it was not included in Southey's _Omniana_ of 1812, and must have been unknown to Byron.] {576} [778] [Sc. _toilette_, a Gallicism.] [779] [Byron loved to make fact and fancy walk together, but, here, his memory played him false, or his art kept him true.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
