gallophone

plural gallophones

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Gallophone.

alternative gallophone

1. not comparableDescribing a speaker of French or their culture

   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

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   The Valle d'Aosta also remained French because he had declared 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

   […] [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

   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)

   Synonyms: Francophone