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Gallophone
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gallophone
English
Alternative forms
en gallophone
Etymology
From en Gallo phone.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡæl.ə.fəʊn/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gallophone.wav Southern England
Adjective
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Describing a speaker of French or their culture
en 1988 Longman Julius Krishner Italy 1530-1630 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=83loAAAAMAAJ&dq=gallophone 9780582483644 255 The Valle d'Aosta also remained French because he had declared that to be its official language; and he appointed only Gallophone representatives
en 1990 International Third World Studies Journal & Review Media Productions & Marketing II 1 83 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.
en 1994 McPherson & Co. Robert Kelly Queen of Terrors: Fictions http://books.google.com/books?id=9MMfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22gallophone%22+-%22Gallophone+records%22&dq=%22gallophone%22+-%22Gallophone+records%22&hl=en&ei=KGRMTMSoOYKosQb99O1F&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBg 9780929701417 78 [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.
en 1997 Royal Musical Association Christopher Page Latin Poetry and Conductus Rhythm in Medieval France http://books.google.com/books?id=xKwXAQAAIAAJ&dq=gallophone 12 9780947854072 The remarks of the Gallophone scholar Pascale Bourgain make interesting reading.
en 2000-08-06 DaveW Mitchell Re: Thoughts on Satie rec.arts.poems http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.poems/msg/c006999bd1eb370d?hl=en 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:
Synonyms
en Francophone