fustian (en)

(noun) a strong cotton and linen fabric / (noun) a class of cotton fabrics usually having a pile face and twill weave / (noun) high-flown or affected writing or speech / (noun) anything high-flown or affected in style

gabardine (en)

a firm hard-finish durable fabric (as of wool or rayon) twilled with diagonal ribs on the right side

gallimaufry (en)

(noun) hodgepodge; a confused jumble or medley of things

galloping inflation (en)

defined as inflation of 10% or more

gamboling (en)

(verb) to skip about in play; frisk frolic

gambrel (en)

(noun) a stick or iron for suspending slaughtered animals / (noun) a roof with a lower steeper slope and an upper less steep one on each of its two sides

game leg (en)

a bad or lame leg

gantry (en)

(noun) a frame for supporting barrels / (noun) ; a frame structure raised on side supports so as to span over or around something; as / (noun) a platform made to carry a traveling crane and supported by towers or side frames running on parallel tracks / (noun) a movable structure with platforms at different levels used for erecting and servicing rockets before launching / (noun) a structure spanning several railroad tracks and displaying signals for each

garret (en)

(noun) a room or unfinished part of a house just under the roof

garrison states (en)

a state organized to serve primarily its own need for military security; also : a state maintained by military power

gavotte (en)

(noun) a dance of French peasant origin marked by the raising rather than sliding of the feet / (noun) a tune for the gavotte in moderately quick 4/4 time

Geary–Khamis dollars (en)

a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time (for comparing GDP between countries)

gelid (en)

(adjective) extremely cold; icy

gemeinschaft (en)

(noun) a spontaneously arising organic social relationship characterized by strong reciprocal bonds of sentiment and kinship within a common tradition / (noun) a community or society characterized by this relationship

Gemütlichkeit (de)

comfort, coziness (like the Danish hygge)

gendarmes (en)

(noun) a member of a body of soldiers especially in France serving as an armed police force for the maintenance of public order / (noun) police officer

Geneva School (en)

(1) a group of linguists based in Geneva who pioneered modern structural linguistics, incl Saussure; and (2) a group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective, incl Poulet

genitive (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a grammatical case marking typically a relationship of possessor or source / (adjective) expressing a relationship that in some inflected languages is often marked by a genitive case / (noun) a syntactic construction in English in which possession is marked both by the preposition of and a noun or pronoun in the possessive case (as in “A friend of Bob's is a friend of mine”)

genitrix (en)

(noun) the biological mother of a child

gentrification (en)

(noun) the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents

genuflect (en)

to bend the knee; to be humbly obedient or respectful

Georges Perec (en)

a French experimental novelist; many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play

gerontocratic (en)

(noun) rule by elders / (noun) a form of social organization in which a group of old men or a council of elders dominates or exercises control

gestalt (en)

form or shape

giallo (it)

Italian slasher/horror film