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
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
Equally canaille, the preliminary occupations of these grisettes differed only in taste.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
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 George Henry Borrow
Even if he did not feel the desire to attend formal services, he seemed, like Voltaire, to feel that they were salutary, if only to furnish the canaille with the will to obey authority.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
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