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  • noun One affected with Anglomania; one who loves England or English people or things.

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Examples

  • Moscow alone; there he stayed at a tavern, diligently visited the club, made speeches and developed his plans in drawing-rooms, and in his behaviour was more than ever Anglomaniac, grumbling and political.

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • Ivan Petrovitch returned to Russia an Anglomaniac.

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • But, marvelous to relate, while he had been transformed into an Anglomaniac, Ivan Petrovitch had at the same time become a patriot, at least he called himself a patriot, though he knew Russia little, had not retained a single Russian habit, and expressed himself in Russian rather queerly; in ordinary conversation, his language was spiritless and inanimate and constantly interspersed with Gallicisms.

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • The Anglomaniac had done his son an ill turn; his whimsical education had produced its fruits.

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • She had lived there long enough to become an Anglomaniac.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • Anglomaniac is as bad form as the swagger of the Bowery "tough."

    The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men Walter Germain

  • "I don't like being called an Anglomaniac," I replied, dropping my ring from one finger to another.

    A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Mr. Thornton an old-time friend, had ordered seats for him and his party at his own table, and the young ladies, finding their appetites rather an uncertain quantity, had plenty of opportunity for observing their fellow-passengers, particularly an Anglomaniac of the most pronounced type, in the person of a callow youth seated opposite them, whose monocle, exaggerated collar, and affected drawl afforded them considerable amusement.

    That Mainwaring Affair

  • I'm no Anglomaniac; an American's good enough for me.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • Noah Webster, as we saw in the last chapter, sneered at the broad a, in 1789, as an Anglomaniac affectation.

    Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 5. Pronunciation Before the Civil War Henry Louis 1921

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