Gallic
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Gallic is an adjective that may describe:
- ancient Gaul (Latin: Gallia), roughly corresponding to the territory of modern France
- pertaining to the Gauls
- Roman Gaul (1st century BC to 5th century)
- Gallic Empire (260–273)
- Frankish Gaul (5th to 8th centuries)
- A Latinism for France, the French people, and their customs
- Gallic epoch, an obsolete epoch of the Cretaceous
- pertaining to gall, a formation induced by a parasite in plants,
- hence the name gallic acid, for a phenolic compound found in these formations
'Gallic' is also a proper noun naming the following ships:
- SS Gallic (1894), a paddle wheel steamship
- SS Gallic (1918), a cargo steamship
See also
[edit]- Gaulish
- Gallican
- Galician (disambiguation)
- Gaelic (disambiguation)
- Gallium, a chemical element
- Galik script, a variation of the traditional Mongolian script
- Gallica (disambiguation)
- Gallicism
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