Gallicisms

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 Mark Polizzotti 2011

"For years I was unhappy, consciously & deliberately," he continues to McGreevy in language notable for its directness (gone are the cryptic jokes and faux Gallicisms of the early letters).

The Making of Samuel Beckett Coetzee, J.M. 2009

Like many other Gallicisms, it lingered in Scotland down to our own time.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all isms but Anglicisms; in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

They were written in France, where that gallant chief resided in exile, which accounts for some Gallicisms which occur in the narrative.

Waverley 2004

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

In these dispatches a few Gallicisms occur; and in writing to an old friend like Sir William White he uses a free mixture of French and

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

In the midst of his best American, George drops into Briticism after Briticism, some of them quite as unintelligible to the average American reader as so many Gallicisms.

Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England Henry Louis 1921

But, marvellous 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.

Chapter X 1917

Wagner's music is made up of very diverse styles: one finds in it Italianisms and Germanisms and even Gallicisms of every kind; there are some that are sublime, some that are commonplace; and at times one feels the awkwardness of their union and the imperfections of their form.

Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915