Canaille

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The masses of the people; the proletariat.
  • n. Rabble; riffraff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
  • n. Shorts or inferior flour.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
  • n. Shorts or inferior flour.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The lowest orders of the people collectively; the rabble; the vulgar.
  • n. Originally, a mixture of the coarser particles of flour and fine bran or shorts for feed; now occasionally used for the grade known as “fine feed” or “finished middlings.” Also spelled canail, canal, and canell.
  • n. A pack (as of hounds): as, the whole canaille of miscreants; a canaille (or canaglia) of poltroons.
  • Word Usage
    "The emperor has written the word canaille—“vile creature”—in the margin here."
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