can

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To which Barlacchia replied, ‘Truly I am sorry for it, and I wish you were all de’ cani or dogs!’

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey

The principality was that of Canino, a name derived from cani, or the whitened hairs of a frozen old age,—true emblem of winter.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Though, indeed, fioi de cani means no great reproach in Venetian parlance; and parents of the lower classes caressingly address their children in these terms.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean