Definitionn. a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line
Last update: August 21, 2015
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You like this better, perhaps," and he strummed, "Messieurs les étudiants, S'en vont à la chaumière Pour y danser le cancan," striking wrong notes, and banging out a bass in a different key--a hideously grotesque performance."' [Please select]
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To look at (but for her loose, square-toed, heelless silk boots laced up the inner side), she might have been the daughter of an English dean--until she undertook to teach the Laird some favorite cancan steps. [Please select]
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Trilby lightly dancing the cancan (there are cancans and cancans) was a singularly gainly and seductive person--_et vera incessu patuit dea_. [Please select]
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And for mere grace (even in the cancan), she was the forerunner of Miss Kate Vaughan; and, for sheer fun, the precursor of Miss Nelly Farren. [Please select]
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The grisettes of the quartier latin have not learned how to read or write; they have only learned how to dance the cancan with the dirty little pig-dog monkeys they call men. [Please select]
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"That day we took her to Meudon, with Jeannot, and dined at the Garde Champêtre's, and she danced the cancan with Sandy." [Please select]
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