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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Vulgarism

· Vul·gar·ism · IPA
01 n. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
  1. 1.
    Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
  2. 2.
    A vulgar phrase or expression.
    “A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call “slang,” which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.” Coleridge.