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
By reason of the riot, however, this teacher's, family had again become conspicuous; the pitiful canaille having allowed themselves to be soothed by an old woman.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
When I am in the bill at Les ambassadeurs, the place is always full of English—my songs are canaille, aren't they? really canaille.
From Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell
One of the canaille, a jailer, was put on the witness stand and questioned briefly.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
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
