Crossword clues for cancan
cancan
- John is able to dance
- Tintin's dance
- Lively dance
- French dance
- High-kicking French dance
- Parisian stage dance
- Musical featuring the song "I Love Paris"
- Moulin Rouge specialty
- Lively stage dance
- Kick-line dance
- Echoing dance
- Dance with kicks
- Dance danced in a ruffled skirt
- Current Porter-Burrows hit
- A dance
- Moulin Rouge attraction
- Movie that Khrushchev watched being filmed
- Porter musical
- Moulin Rouge dance
- Moulin Rouge performance
- Dance with high kicks
- A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line
- High-kicking dance
- High-kicking exhibition
- MacLaine movie
- Dance for kickers
- Containers from 23 Across?
- French female chorus line dance
- Parisian dance
- Paris music hall dance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cancan \Can"can\, n. [F.] A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also can-can, 1848, from French, possibly from can, a French children's word for "duck" (see canard), via some notion of "waddling" too obscure or obscene to attempt to disentangle here. Or perhaps from French cancan (16c.) "noise, disturbance," echoic of quacking.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France. 2 (context motocross English) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side. vb. To dance the cancan.
WordNet
n. a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line
Usage examples of "cancan".
The doorway of one of these wine-shops opened exactly between the two barricades of the Petit Cancan.
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Their frenzied, shouting, screeching fling-about of high kicks, backbends, struttings, sudden splits—danced to Maître Offenbach's rowdy cancan from Orphée aux Enfers—could hardly have been more rousingly erotic if they had danced stark naked.