Word: francesismi
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...Assembly debate with an obscure quotation from anything including the Bible and Pinocchio, that night debated happily such revolutionary questions as the use of the gerund as a participle, the correct version of lines from a 16th Century Italian poet, the corruption of the Italian language by certain "francesismi" (Gallicisms). Behind his steel-rimmed glasses his brown eyes sparkled merrily as he told how he had watched 30,000 Communist-led partisans give the Eternal City a mighty show of force...
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