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GALLICISM
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word or phrase borrowed from French
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gallicism" is a kind of...):
loan; loanword (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)