a. and sb. [f. prec. + -AN.]
A. adj. Opposed to what is French.
1765. Smollett, Trav., 56. Antigallican spirit enough to produce themselves in their own genuine English dress.
1817. Coleridge, Biogr. Lit. (1817), 101. Far greater earnestness and zeal both anti-jacobin and anti-gallican.
1842. Alison, Hist. Eur. (1849), X. lxvi. § 22. 135. The convulsion, as Wellington often observed, was anti-Gallican, not democratic.
B. sb. One opposed to the French.
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 280. A … badge, given by the society of Antigallicans.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 331. The Anti-Gallicans retained Jacob.
1854. Bancroft, Hist. U.S. (1876), VI. xlvi. 302. Congress was divided between what the French envoy named ‘Gallicans’ and ‘anti-Gallicans.’
