canaille

Example Sentences

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He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

You canaille you, vis your silly talk about ze organiste.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

I am not so fastidious as Dr. Grey, and one who sprang from canaille must be pardoned if she betrays a longing for the ‘flesh-pots of Egypt.’

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

Mon cher,' said the other, 'you and I were once gentlemen—we talked, ate, drank, and dressed as such; we have now the canaille life, and the past is scarcely even a dream.'

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James

One of the canaille, a jailer, was put on the witness stand and questioned briefly.

From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John