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Example sentences for: gallic
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But whatever Gallic ambience this may have created has been thoroughly “Italianized” by the steady influx of workers from the south for the steel, chemical, automobile, and communications industries.
Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.
Depardieu, meanwhile, demonstrates that Gallic ham is fattier than its Anglo counterpart.
TIMOTHY: What, you mean the Manchester United ace given to contretemps with footballing authorities and fits of Gallic pique?
The trend towards the Gallicization of English in Quebec coincides with the introduction of pro-French legislation around twenty years ago, and the use of French has gained in prestige as a result, making it more likely for Gallic loanwords to appear in English.
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