Cafard

"Cafard" in a Sentence (2 examples)

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.

At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her.

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