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

The canaille have taken to parade the streets, singing and shouting their odious songs, and Jocasse has suffered much from the disturbance.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

The canaille that had crouched for a century seemed in some unaccountable way to be changing its posture!

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

Equally canaille, the preliminary occupations of these grisettes differed only in taste.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

One of the canaille, a jailer, was put on the witness stand and questioned briefly.

From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John