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cafards

cafards is the plural of cafard.

Meaning of cafard

Noun

cafard (plural cafards)

  1. Depression; melancholy.
    • That's the worst trouble with the soldiers in the trenches — nothing to do. It gives them the cafards, the black butterflies, the blue devils, the jimjams, the hump.1918, Elizabeth Frazer, Old Glory and Verdun, page 169

Questions about cafards

What is cafards the plural of?
Cafards is the plural of cafard.

Words near cafards in the dictionary

  1. CAF Champions League
  2. caf up
  3. CAFAB
  4. cafaminol
  5. cafard
  6. cafards
  7. Cafarelli
  8. Cafarellis
  9. Cafaro
  10. Cafaros
  11. cafarsite

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