gallicisms

“The best and latest, the Rev.Mr. Foster’s, which is diffuse and verbose, and Mr.G. Moir Bussey’s, which is a re - correction, abound in gallicisms of style and idiom; and one and all degrade a chef d’oeuvre of the highest anthropological and ethnographical interest and importance to a mere fairy book, a nice present for little boys.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

“The preface begins by describing it as ‘A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious portuguese and brazilian Youth,’ and ends with ‘We expect then, who the little book (for the care what we wrote him, and for her typographical correction) that may be worth the acceptance of the studious persons, and specially the Youth, at which we dedicate him particularly.’”

Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions

“The translation reads well, in spite of a number of perhaps misleading archaisms or gallicisms, such as 'luxury' for 'lust' (luxure) and 'inconsequent' for 'inconsistent' (inconséquent).”

King Phallus

“Do not bother your head about gallicisms," I used to say to him.”

Youth and Egolatry

“A great number of idioms, that seem to be pure gallicisms, are found, in spite of the deliberate effort, referred to above, to eliminate French forms.”

Frederic Mistral

“I admired, as we must in all that Mr. James has written, the finished workmanship in which there is no loss of vigor; the luminous and uncommon use of words, the originality of phrase, the whole clear and beautiful style, which I confess I weakly liked the better for the occasional gallicisms remaining from an inveterate habit of French.”

Henry James, Jr.

“The best and latest, the Rev.Mr. Foster's, which is diffuse and verbose, and Mr.G. Moir Bussey's, which is a re - correction, abound in gallicisms of style and idiom; and one and all degrade a chef d'oeuvre of the highest anthropological and ethnographical interest and importance to a mere fairy book, a nice present for little boys.”

Arabian nights. English