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‖ canaille|kaˈnɑj, -ˈeɪl|
Also 7 canaile, cannale, 8 kennel, 9 Sc. cannailyie, canalyie.
[a. F. canaille, ad. It. canaglia (Sp. canalla, Pg. canalha), f. cane, L. can-is dog, with collective suffix, lit. ‘pack of dogs’. In 17th and 18th c. app. naturalized; now again consciously used as French. The It. form was in earlier use: see canaglia.]
A contemptuous name given to the populace; the ‘vile herd’, vile populace; the rabble, the mob.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode v. i. (1684) 66 Let the Canaile wait as they should do. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. i. 26 This Shameful Impiety..has not only prevailed with the Populace, the Cannale, the Vulgar. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 73 Faulty morals deservedly..bring down rank and birth to the canaille. 1792Gentl. Mag. LXII. i. 6 Like true Canaille..literally, a parcel of Dogs. 1805J. Nicol Poems I. 37 (Jam.) The hale cannailyie, risin, tried In vain to end their gabblin. 1845Disraeli Sybil 103 Railroads..and manufactories..are enterprises for the canaille, and I hate them in my heart.
b. A pack.
168.Fears & Jeal. Ceas'd 4 A most Powerful Party..enrag'd against the whole Canaille of these Miscreants. |