If any elegant scholar will translate that Gallicism for me literally, I shall feel obliged to him. |
Under the Normans, the town had a large colony of Lombards, and to this day the inhabitants speak a dialect rich in Gallicism. |
I suppose it is a bit redundant since that is the nature of a Gallicism, but I suppose there are worse sins to commit when writing. |
The Gallicism here lies in the po-facedness of its curating, an abiding sense that the French don't really get Andy. |
It is a Gallicism, but all the better, where one desires to be imperative, and yet vague. |
But this association proved so helpless that it could not even hinder the invasion of Gallicism in the eighteenth century. |