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  • Prince de Loudon, afflicted with anglomania, had brought out his own hunting establishment, which was exclusively Britannic, and placed it under orders of the Master of the Hunt.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • I must accompany her into a little pavilion covered in a green trellis, not unlike one of the disused toll-houses of old Paris, in which had recently been installed what in England they call a lavatory but in France, by an ill-informed piece of anglomania, ‘water-closets.’

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

  • It is precisely that other propaganda — anglomania, the cultured arrogance of the heirs of the British empire-English "industrial revolution," and the pompous fawning worship of some holier-than-thou "Muse" — that has long since turned most Americans away from poetry as it is.

    Cultural Barbarians? Barry, Jan 1973

  • The success of Greuse was therefore one of the innumerable forms of the eighteenth-century anglomania.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • This at least would seem to be the verdict of a distinguished French philosopher, and French philosophers are not often afflicted with “anglomania” in any amiable sense.

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • France's sartorial anglomania goes back to the end of the 18th century, but 1867 was a cracking moment for a former Bon Marché employee to buy into it.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • France's sartorial anglomania goes back to the end of the 18th century, but 1867 was a cracking moment for a former Bon Marché employee to buy into it.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Paris: “That’s funny; the son is higher than the father!” she would remark, adding, for she was afflicted with anglomania, “Those Royalties are so dreadfully confusing!” — while to someone who asked her from what province the Guermantes family came she replied, “From the

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

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  • Oh, i am a long-time insufferable sufferer of this affliction!

    February 19, 2010