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cafard

cafard

English

Noun

cafard (plural cafards)

  1. Depression, melancholy.
    • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
      At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.faʁ/
  • Rhymes: -aʁ

Noun

cafard m (plural cafards)

  1. cockroach
  2. depression, melancholy
  3. tattletale, informant, rat

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