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Gallophone en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɡæl.ə.fəʊn/ (UK)

Etymology

From Gallo- + -phone.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Describing a speaker of French or their culture
   • The Valle d'Aosta also remained French because he had delcared that to be its official language; and he appointed only Gallophone representatives […] 1988, Julius Krishner, editor, Italy 1530-1630, volume 4, Longman, →ISBN, page 255:
   • Anglophone and Gallophone communities there began an intensifiation of the long-standing concern for the role of education – and, hence, Symbol Systems Access – which we see in the world's major civilizations, such as the Chinese and the Greco-Roman. 1990, International Third World Studies Journal & Review, volume II, number 1, Media Productions & Marketing, page 83:
   • My French is much too limited and pedestrian to comprehend, let alone translate, the nuances of your piece, so all I can do is tell you what it seems to evoke (from some dim ancestral recess inhabited by my Gallophone forebears) that meshes with my original feelings: 2000 August 6, DaveW Mitchell, “Re: Thoughts on Satie”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet):
   • […] [T]o write as a native of some gallophone provincial capital, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, yet in a language that would be puzzling to a resident even of Rouen, to speak nothing of further away. 1994, Robert Kelly, Queen of Terrors: Fictions, McPherson & Co., →ISBN, page 78:
   • The remarks of the Gallophone scholar Pascale Bourgain make interesting reading. 1997, Christopher Page, Latin Poetry and Conductus Rhythm in Medieval France, Royal Musical Association, →ISBN, page 12:

Forms

Synonyms

Francophone