Is there a word for a combination of words that are redundant,, such as" free gift"?

An “oxymoron” is the combination of conflicting words, such as “liberal Republican” or “old news”. Is there a word for a combination of words that are redundant, rather than conflicting, such as “free gift”?

Yes. Pleonasm:

Tautology?

Don’t start a civil war, now.

Redundant tautological pleonasm?

Repetitive redundant tautological pleonasm?

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My fave is “true facts”.

Redundancy.

For lunch, I had a salad with Jumbo Shrimp on it. :slight_smile:

That’d be the Oxymoron Salad, I take it?

Someone on this very board said it wasn’t a Caesar Salad unless you stabbed it 23 times.

My long-time favorite is “general consensus of opinion”.

Which really is saying the “general general consensus of opinion”