Crossword clues for canaille
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canaille \Ca*naille"\, n. [F. canaille (cf. It. canaglia), prop. and orig. a pack of dogs, fr. L. Canis dog.]
The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
Shorts or inferior flour. [Canadian]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rabble," from French canaille (16c.), from Italian canaglia, literally "a pack of dogs," from cane "dog" (see canine).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. 2 (context Canada English) shorts or inferior flour.
Usage examples of "canaille".
This invasion of the royal palace by the roistering canaille, this vile insult to royalty, was an affront beyond endurance.
Certainly the canaille were beginning to imagine the monarch spontaneously sympathetic to their cause.
She would hide her personal treasures where the canaille might never find them.
Come, my ten thousand francs, canaille, or I take my pay on your back.
Such ignorant canaille are enough to start Galileo spinning in his grave.
This was apparently in the nature of a canaille toast, for the six vulgarians guzzled their pots in unison, Shelyid joining in, with a passionate ardor so utterly inappropriate to the situation that even the lambs of the field, should they have been witness, would have bleated for his blood.
Certainly the canaille were beginning to imagine the monarch spontaneously sympathetic to their cause.
That stupid canaille Harkins had botched up an opportunity to get his hands on the green-eyed temptress.
And we have this canaille, but not in the condition that the State would have preferred.
Throughout The Snarlrun, while their betters stood silent, aghast, able to keep quill to paper solely by dint of long training and stern regimen, did the canaille gather upon Shelyid's shoulders and cavort shamelessly.
You must know, sir, that, exclusive of the canaille, or the profanum vulgus, as they are styled by Horace, there are several small communities in the jail, consisting of people who are attracted by the manners and dispositions of each other.
For I've made you: but for me you'd long since have matriculated at La Tour Pointue and graduated with the canaille of the Sante.
The words are as follows: "Tant des ennemis manifestes de la vÈritÈ de Dieu, que de beaucoup de canailles qui se sont fourrez en son Eglise: tant des Moines qui ont apportÈ leurs frocs hors de leurs cloistres pour infecter le lieu o~ ils venoyent, que d'autres vilains qui ne valent pas mieux qu'eux.
And such men maysafely and advantageously reserve to themselves a wholsome controul over their public affairs, and a degree of freedom, which in the hands of the Canaille of the cities of Europe, would be instantly perverted to the demolition and destruction of every thing public and private.
All the time he kept on treasuring with condign satisfaction each and every crumb of trektalk, covetous of his neighbour's word, and if ever, during a Munda conversazione commoted in the nation's interest, delicate tippits were thrown out to him touching his evil courses by some wellwishers, vainly pleading by scriptural arguments with the opprobrious papist about trying to brace up for the kidos of the thing, Scally wag, and be a men instead of a dem scrounger, dish it all, such as: Pray, what is the meaning, sousy, of that continental expression, if you ever came acrux it, we think it is a word transpiciously like canaille?