Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A strong predilection for anything French.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mania for imitating the French in manners, customs, dress, literature, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An excessive admiration of what is French.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An obsession with, or excessive admiration of, all things French

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French gallomanie : gallo-, France (from Latin Gallus, a Gaul) + -manie, mania (from Late Latin mania; see mania).]

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Gallo-, "French", and mania.

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