cafard
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cafard
C20: from French, literally: cockroach, hypocrite
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There is le cafard, too, the blues that lonely, tired women get the world over after a long day's work.
From Time Magazine Archive
"J'ai le cafard," announces the soldat and he is amok with a little beetle running round and round in his brains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Officers of the Legion old enough to have won a few medals seemed to respect the cafard and make allowances for his deadly work.
From A Soldier of the Legion by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
They mustn't go to the places where the cafard would take him.
From A Soldier of the Legion by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Dear godfather: You know what it is the "cafard?"
From Deer Godchild by Marguerite Bernard
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