Canaille
riffraff; rabble.
Historical Examples
Modern Flirtations Catherine Sinclair
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini
The Red Year Louis Tracy
Gerald Fitzgerald Charles James Lever
In the Day of Adversity John Bloundelle-Burton
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
Devereux, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Romance Island Zona Gale
The Parisians, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton
noun
the masses; mob; rabble
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