Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vulgarism

Vulgarism , noun

[Compare French vulgarisme.]

1.
Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
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