cancans

Meaning of cancans

plural noun
  1. 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 cancans

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of cancans is: cancan.
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Hyphenation of cancans

can-cans

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • cancans is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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