(countable, collective) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying tha…
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(uncountable, Canada) Shorts or inferior flour.
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