canaille

Example Sentences

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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

"All canaille, but--not all like that, or we had some strange bed-fellows indeed!"

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

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

Mon cher,' said the other, 'you and I were once gentlemen—we talked, ate, drank, and dressed as such; we have now the canaille life, and the past is scarcely even a dream.'

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James

He was, moreover, no friend to the populace, to the canaille, and he had a particular aversion to the nationals. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry