ˌAnglo-ˈGallic, a.
[f. Anglo- + Gallic a.1]
Pertaining, relating, or common to both England and France; spec. in Numism. (see quot. 1962). Hence Anglo-ˈGallicized adj.; Anglo-ˈGallicism, a French word or phrase adopted into English.
| 1757 A. C. Ducarel (title) A series of above 200 Anglo-Gallic..Coins of the antient Kings of England. 1821 New Monthly Mag. II. 310 Take then your new-fangled Anglo-gallicism trait. 1901 J. E. Moon (title) Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon, English and Anglo-Gallic Coins. 1926 Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 476/2 Purposive..the Latin suffix -ive is unsuited to the delatinized & anglogallicized pur-. 1960 L. D. Stamp Brit. Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) xii. 141 A partly enclosed sea, which has been called the Anglo-Franco-Belgian Basin or the Anglo-Gallic Basin, covered the south-east of England, the north-east of France and the greater part of Belgium. 1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 249 The..term ‘Anglo-Gallic’ has been generally adopted to describe the coinage in the name of English rulers for the territories in France which they at different times controlled. |