cancan
noun
a lively high kicking dance that came into vogue about 1830 in Paris and after 1844 was used as an exhibition dance.
cancans
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pluralof cancan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It fetches up a lot of gay, happy dancing, much of it with a period touch of cancans and cakewalks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The pompous little beggars with puffed-out wattles and neck ruffs were positively doing cancans and two-steps along the prairie floor.
From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn
“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 Charles E. Derbyshire
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 Arthur Christopher Benson
