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canailles

canailles is the plural of canaille.

Meaning of canaille

Noun

canaille (countable and uncountable, plural canailles)

  1. (collective, countable) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
    • I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be...1553, Ambroise Paré, “The Journey to Hesdin”, in Journeys In Diverse Places
  2. (Canada, uncountable) Shorts or inferior flour.

Questions about canailles

What is canailles the plural of?
Canailles is the plural of canaille.

Words near canailles in the dictionary

  1. canagliflozin
  2. canagong
  3. canaigre
  4. canail
  5. canaille
  6. canailles
  7. Canaiolo
  8. Canajan
  9. Canajans
  10. Canajoharie
  11. canajong

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