gallicism

• This expression is no longer used in French, but the English gallicism to flirt has made its way and has now become an anglicism. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• This, translated into French, became that horrible gallicism: _la bêtise Biche_. —  The Lord of the Sea
• "This is not simply a gallicism, but a corruption of the French _on_; itself a corruption." —  The Grammar of English Grammars
• 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
• Don Nicolás Estévanez, who imagined himself an anarchist, would fly into a rage if he read an article which concealed a gallicism in it. —  Youth and Egolatry

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