cancan
Meaning of cancan
noun
- a lively, high-kicking stage dance originating in 19th-century Parisian music halls and performed by women in long skirts and petticoats.
people were dancing the cancan
cancan dancers
mid 19th century: from French, child's word for canard ‘duck’, from Old French caner ‘to quack’.
Information about cancan
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cancan is: cancans.
- Languages in which cancan is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of cancan
can-can
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- cancan is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with cancan
Talamancan, Lencan, Incan, Jincan, Xincan, incan, Concan, cooncan, Duncan, Yuncan, rduncan
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