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Webster 1913 Edition

Canaille

Ca-naille′

,

Noun.

[F.

canaille

(cf. It.

canaglia

), prop. and orig. a pack of dogs, fr. L.

Canis

dog.]

1.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

2.

Shorts or inferior flour.

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