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"ref": "1553, Ambroise Paré, “The Journey to Hesdin”, in Journeys In Diverse Places",
"text": "I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be wasted on them.",
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"ref": "1865, John Ruskin, \"Of Kings' Treasuries\", Unto This Last and Other Writings, Penguin: New York (1997), p. 262",
"text": "… whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; …"
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"ref": "1937, P. G. Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, Woodstock: Overlook, published 2002, pages 99–100",
"text": "The President's Cup, for all its high-sounding name, was one of the lowliest and most humble trophies offered for competition to the members of our club... It had been instituted by a kindly committee for the benefit of the canaille of our little golfing world, those retired military, naval and business men who withdraw to the country and take up golf in their fifties.",
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"(countable, collective) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar."
],
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}
],
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"Shorts or inferior flour."
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"Shorts",
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"flour",
"flour"
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"(uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"uncountable"
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"(uncountable) plebs, scum, riffraff"
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"(countable) rascal, jerk, scumbag"
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"2": "canaille",
"bor": "1"
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"2": "kanajlo",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Esperanto: kanajlo",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "→ Esperanto: kanajlo"
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"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "kanalja",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Finnish: kanalja",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "→ Finnish: kanalja"
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"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Canaille",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Canaille",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Canaille"
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"1": "ht",
"2": "kannay"
},
"expansion": "Haitian Creole: kannay",
"name": "desc"
}
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"5": "",
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"g3": "",
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"pos": "",
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"2": "frm",
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"2": "it",
"3": "canaglia"
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"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"_dis": "46 54",
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"(archaic) rabble (collectively)"
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"archaic",
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[
"blackguard",
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[
"scoundrel",
"scoundrel"
],
[
"scum",
"scum"
]
],
"tags": [
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}
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},
{
"ipa": "/ka.nɑj/"
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"Dutch terms derived from Middle French",
"Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Dutch terms with audio links",
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"1": "fy",
"2": "kanalje",
"bor": "1"
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"ref": "1553, Ambroise Paré, “The Journey to Hesdin”, in Journeys In Diverse Places",
"text": "I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be wasted on them.",
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"ref": "1865, John Ruskin, \"Of Kings' Treasuries\", Unto This Last and Other Writings, Penguin: New York (1997), p. 262",
"text": "… whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; …"
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"ref": "1937, P. G. Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, Woodstock: Overlook, published 2002, pages 99–100",
"text": "The President's Cup, for all its high-sounding name, was one of the lowliest and most humble trophies offered for competition to the members of our club... It had been instituted by a kindly committee for the benefit of the canaille of our little golfing world, those retired military, naval and business men who withdraw to the country and take up golf in their fifties.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar."
],
"links": [
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"vulgar",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, collective) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar."
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"tags": [
"collective",
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"English uncountable nouns"
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"Shorts or inferior flour."
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"flour",
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour."
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"tags": [
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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kəˈneɪl/"
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"word": "canaille"
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"French countable nouns",
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"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms derived from Italian",
"French terms derived from Middle French",
"French terms inherited from Middle French",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links",
"fr:People"
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"derived": [
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"word": "encanaillement"
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{
"word": "encanailler"
}
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "kanalje",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Danish: kanalje",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Danish: kanalje"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "canaille",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ English: canaille",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "→ English: canaille"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "kanajlo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: kanajlo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: kanajlo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "kanalja",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Finnish: kanalja",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Finnish: kanalja"
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Canaille",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Canaille",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Canaille"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "ht",
"2": "kannay"
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"expansion": "Haitian Creole: kannay",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "Haitian Creole: kannay"
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"expansion": "Middle French canaille",
"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "frm",
"3": "canaille"
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"expansion": "Inherited from Middle French canaille",
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"1": "fr",
"2": "it",
"3": "canaglia"
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"expansion": "Italian canaglia",
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"tags": [
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}
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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
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"rabble (collectively)"
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"(archaic) rabble (collectively)"
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{
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"links": [
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"rascal",
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[
"blackguard",
"blackguard"
],
[
"scoundrel",
"scoundrel"
],
[
"scum",
"scum"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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},
{
"ipa": "/ka.nɑj/"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-canaille.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/21/Fr-canaille.ogg/Fr-canaille.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Fr-canaille.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "canaille"
}
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