canaille

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He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The enemies of the church are to be found almost exclusively in the bourgeoisie, and still more in the canaille, of that literature.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich

I think you have hit on the very answer to your question; not but what men of high birth were as mad as the canaille.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

The canaille have taken to parade the streets, singing and shouting their odious songs, and Jocasse has suffered much from the disturbance.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

"And am I to see my father's name insulted, and his house dishonored by such a canaille crew as this?"

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James