Definition of "gallicism" []

• A loanword borrowed from French (noun)

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• "If there was any doubts as to my being french, that gallicism has now blown them to kingdom come."
• "At the outset we must note that “motif” is a gallicism, thereby set apart from the broader implications of its English cognate “motive.”"
• "Don Nicolás Estévanez, who imagined himself an anarchist, would fly into a rage if he read an article which concealed a gallicism in it."