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

Equally canaille, the preliminary occupations of these grisettes differed only in taste.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

The canaille have taken to parade the streets, singing and shouting their odious songs, and Jocasse has suffered much from the disturbance.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

When I am in the bill at Les ambassadeurs, the place is always full of English—my songs are canaille, aren't they? really canaille.

From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max

I think you have hit on the very answer to your question; not but what men of high birth were as mad as the canaille.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by