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Anglomania   Listen
noun
Anglomania  n.  A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Anglomania" Quotes from Famous Books



... of these facts has at length led us to break with the Anglomania of former years, and the tendency towards improved preparation has become more evident, whilst the centrifugal strivings of individuals no longer find acceptance. On the other hand, it seems to me beyond a doubt that the objects which we wish to obtain from our Military school of ...
— Cavalry in Future Wars • Frederick von Bernhardi

... awful: it had swarmed over Europe after the Peace; it had danced, and raced, and gambled in all the Courts. It had made its bow at Versailles; it had run its horses on the plain of Sablons, near Paris, and created the Anglomania there: it had exported vast quantities of pictures and marbles from Rome and Florence: it had ruined itself by building great galleries and palaces for the reception of the statues and pictures: it ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray



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