Usually means: French expression used in English.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word gallicism:

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  1. Gallicism, gallicism: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gallicism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Gallicism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gallicism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gallicism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gallicism: Wordnik
  7. Gallicism, gallicism: Wiktionary
  8. Gallicism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Gallicism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Gallicism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gallicism, gallicism: Dictionary.com
  12. Gallicism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Gallicism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gallicism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Gallicism: Rhymezone
  16. Gallicism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gallicism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. gallicism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gallicism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Gallicism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Gallicism: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. Gallicism: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gallicism)

▸ noun:  A loanword borrowed from French.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Gallicism [A loanword borrowed from French.]

Similar:
Gallicizer, Gallicization, Gallicisation, Gallification, Germanism, Gallo-Roman, Graecism, graecicization, Gasconism, Galic, more...

Opposite:
anglicism, non-Gallicism, anti-Gallicism

Adjectives:
much, occasional, mental, latent, inexcusable, anti, expressive, awkward, affected, mere, quaint

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Similar:
Gallicizer, Gallicization, Gallicisation, Gallification, Germanism, Gallo-Roman, Graecism, graecicization, Gasconism, Galic, more...

Opposite:
anglicism, non-Gallicism, anti-Gallicism

Adjectives:
much, occasional, mental, latent, inexcusable, anti, expressive, awkward, affected, mere, quaint



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