canaille

Apr. 17th, 2008 07:18 am
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canaille - n., riffraff, rabble, the lowest classes of people.


Can be pronounced either Anglicized or as if French. From French, from Italian canaglia, pack of dogs, rabble, from cane, dog, from Latin canis, dog.

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