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Canaille

//kəˈnaɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. collective, countable

    "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 wasted on them."

  2. 2
    Shorts or inferior flour. Canada, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canaille.

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