English

Noun

canaille ‎(plural canailles)

1. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
   • 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, pp 99-100.

     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.

2. (Canada) Shorts or inferior flour.

References

• canaille in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• alliance
• ancillae

French

Etymology

From Italian canaglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanaj/

Noun

canaille f ‎(plural canailles)

1. (archaic) rabble (collectively)
2. rascal, blackguard, scoundrel, scum

Derived terms

• encanaillement
• encanailler

Anagrams

• alliance