gallicism in English
noun
1
a French expression, especially one adopted by speakers of another language.
The term ‘finance’ originated with the Old French finer (to end or settle, applied to indebtedness) and crept into other Romance languages as a Gallicism and into English via the Middle English ‘finance.’
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1. First Known Use of Briticism 1868, in the meaning defined above History and Etymology for Briticism Brit ish + -icism (as in Gallicism)