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
"I didn't know that honest men were canaille," retorted Elina, flushing with anger; "I thought no one was ever called by that name but villains and rascals."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
He had with him as his chamber-moor his long, lean dispenser, who in the adjoining drinking-room encountered the very short dispenser of the second apothecary's-shop, or shop of the canaille.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
The canaille that had crouched for a century seemed in some unaccountable way to be changing its posture!
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
Then may I ask what are these canaille to me?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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