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What (who) is gallic - definition
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Gallic (disambiguation)
Gallic
Gallic means the same as French
. You sometimes use Gallic to describe ideas, feelings, or actions that you think are very typical of France and French people.
. You sometimes use Gallic to describe ideas, feelings, or actions that you think are very typical of France and French people.
The proposal has provoked howls of Gallic indignation...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Gallic
·adj Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
II. Gallic ·adj Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
III. Gallic ·adj Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
Gallic
['gal?k]
¦ adjective
1. of or characteristic of France or the French.
2. relating to the Gauls.
Derivatives
Gallicize or Gallicise verb
Origin
C17: from L. Gallicus, from Gallus 'a Gaul'.
Wikipedia
Gallic
Gallic is an adjective that may describe:
- ancient Gaul (Latin: Gallia), roughly corresponding to the territory of modern France
- pertaining to the Gauls
- Roman Gaul (1st century BC to 5th century)
- Gallic Empire (260–273)
- Frankish Gaul (5th to 8th centuries)
- A Latinism for France, the French people, and their customs
- Gallic epoch, an obsolete epoch of the Cretaceous
- pertaining to gall, a formation induced by a parasite in plants,
- hence the name gallic acid, for a phenolic compound found in these formations
'Gallic' is also a proper noun naming the following ships:
- SS Gallic (1894), a paddle wheel steamship
- SS Gallic (1918), a cargo steamship
Examples of use of gallic
1. To Gallic eloquence, we can only offer Anglo–Saxon directness.
2. In Britain sordid anti–Gallic prejudice rears its head.
3. He had promised, with a Gallic flourish, to make the cranes dance.
4. Roddick declared herself beguiled by the Gallic charm of L‘Oreal‘s negotiators.
5. But for the first time Britain is breeding more kitchen–savvy youngsters than its Gallic cousin, a revelation that has provoked scorn from the proud world of Gallic gastronomy.