bellicism

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Most of the gallicisms found are anglicized loan words from the French romans d'aventure, such as, disseized, cheare, chappell, assoiled, guerdon, palfrey, recreaunt, trenchand, syre, and trusse.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

His later novels and tales are disfigured by their didactic tendency, by feeble drawing of character, and even by certain gallicisms of style.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Cienfuegos was blamed for an unsparing use of both archaisms and gallicisms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

"Do not bother your head about gallicisms," I used to say to him.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

The examples in Dr. Johnson's quarto Dictionary exhibit the words, gallicisms, anglicisms, hebrician, latinize, latinized, judaized, and christianized, without capitals; and the words Latinisms, Grecisms, Hebraisms, and Frenchified, under like circumstances, with them.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold