cancans
- plural of cancan.
Example Sentences
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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
During this time I had nothing to annoy me but the ceaseless cancans of my passengers.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
Still there are cancans at Paris; and cancans we overheard, and precisely in the manner I have related.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore
