They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.
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Cancan
//ˈkænˌkæn//
Synonyms for "cancan"
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15 translations across 14 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- կանկան noun (dance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 康康舞 noun (dance)
Czech
1 entries- kankán noun (dance)
Finnish
1 entries- cancan noun (dance)
French
1 entries- cancan noun (dance)
Georgian
1 entries- კანკანი noun (dance)
German
1 entries- Cancan noun (dance)
Hungarian
1 entries- kánkán noun (dance)
Japanese
2 entries- カンカン noun (dance)
- フレンチカンカン noun (dance)
Polish
1 entries- kankan noun (dance)
Portuguese
1 entries- cancã noun (dance)
Russian
1 entries- канка́н noun (dance)
Swedish
1 entries- cancan noun (dance)
Turkish
1 entries- kankan noun (dance)
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