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Definition of Canailles
1. canaille [n] - See also: canaille
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canailles
Literary usage of Canailles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hatzfeldt Letters: Letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to His Wife, Written by Paul Hatzfeldt, John Laidlay Bashford (1905)
"... is a sufficient one for me ; and I don't want to see you fall into the hands
of a band of francs - tireurs, who are the greatest canailles in the world. ..."
2. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"You can not well be wholly unadvised as to what the two canailles, Lump and
Bastard, 1 are doing to you, and you have had letters on the subject from me and ..."
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