Frenchismn.

1750 H. Walpole Let. 10 Jan. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 331 It is very amusing, though very full of Frenchisms.

1854 Harper's Mag. Sept. 557/1 An economic family of English people, with a much-enduring governess in their train, who teaches Frenchisms, and suffers Englishisms.

1868 H. Kingsley Mlle. Mathilde II. viii. 112 Lady Somers..twittered out her little Frenchisms with a perfect accent.

1948 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 1 67 In this mixture of fact and fancy, the translator..is responsible for many deft touches. Some are Frenchisms.

1961 Idaho State Jrnl. 2 July 19/3 A piece de resistance, a Frenchism we Americans have no synonym for.

2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. on Miracles at Little No Horse xviii. 284 Margaret sometimes added little Frenchisms to her Ojibwemowin, just the way the fancy sounding wives of the French voyageurs added, like a dash of spice, random le 's and la 's.

1793 H. Walpole Let. 4 Dec. in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1865) I. 423 He had squeezed a little Frenchism into his intention, and had asked for..soldiers to attend him.

1818 Gen. Index to Monthly Rev. II. 589 His observations on the Frenchism of all the leading characters in Racine's plays.

1840 Museum of Foreign Lit. Mar. 336/1 Pendules, ottomans, bergeres, mirrors, seemingly fresh from the French salons... But perhaps the tourist is already sick of elegancies and Frenchisms.

1864 Harper's Mag. Jan. 191/1 The pretty little Frenchisms of Mademoiselle might not seem so..piquant as at first when set over against the more comprehensive intelligence of the friend.

1900 E. S. Prior Hist. Gothic Art Eng. ii. 41 It is not fair to cheat English Gothic of recognition because of the fag ends of the Romanesque designs of Peterborough, Ely, and Durham, any more than on the ground of the imported Frenchisms of Canterbury.

1949 Social Res. Dec. 504 ‘Americanism’, many Frenchmen believe, is the antithesis of what, for lack of a better word, we may call ‘Frenchism’—that is, a taste for plain living and the ability to relax.

1985 T. Parla Soc. & Polit. Thought Ziya Gökalp v. 73 Gökalp thus indicts the Persianism of the early Ottoman and the Frenchism of the Tanzimat elites.

2007 G. Barak Violence, Conflict, & World Order (Introd.) 3 The struggle now is..to protect homogeneity or Americanism or Frenchism or Islamism or whatever.