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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Gallomania, which for a while possessed him, of translating all his works, and thenceforth writing only in French.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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Gallomania had been, only in such measure as the nature of the imitated lay nearer the German spirit and hence allowed and cherished a parallel independence rather than demanded utter subjection.
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Gallomania, nor forgotten my friends in England; and I conclude with a wish _a propos_ to my subject -- that they may long enjoy the rational liberty they possess and so well deserve.
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This ceremony is never omitted in families, though in the early part of the century, when the Gallomania was at its height, it is said to have been much neglected.
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Gallomania, nor forgotten my friends in England; and I conclude with a wish _a propos_ to my subject -- that they may long enjoy the rational liberty they possess and so well deserve.
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Standard que le Times d'aujourd'hui paroit etre assez d'accord avec l'auteur de la “Gallomania” sur M. Thiers, esperant que de jour en jour il reviendra aux idees de cet auteur.
A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911
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To me the Gallomania (or mania for what is French) appears to be one of the most felicitous titles ever devised.
A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911
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What think you of “A Cure for the Ministerial Gallomania,” and advertise, dedicated to Lord Grey?
A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911
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[Footnote: Several references are made to “Contarini Fleming” and “Gallomania” in “Lord Beaconsfield's Letters to his Sister,” published in 1887.]
A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911
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In a word, Gallomania had become the prevailing social epidemic of the time, and it could not fail to attack and metamorphose such a class as the Russian Noblesse, which possessed few stubborn deep-rooted national convictions.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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