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Before the wedding, she did playful cancans in the vestry and, because it was a cold, snowy day, she remembers: "I put on my father's Long Johns under my wedding dress."

From Time Magazine Archive

It fetches up a lot of gay, happy dancing, much of it with a period touch of cancans and cakewalks.

From Time Magazine Archive

There seems, however, really no end to cancans at Paris; for the Duke of Cambridge seems to have shared the same fate.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

She knows better than to believe cancans, and has slept the sleep of the angels.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

“Quoi v’la tous les cancans d’la s’maine!” sang Gertrude, a proud damsel, who was looking roguishly askance at the Captain-General.

From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.