Definitions for cancans

cancans can·can

Spelling: [kan-kan]
IPA: /ˈkænˌkæn/

Cancans is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in cancans (aaccnns).

Definitions for cancans

noun

  1. a lively high kicking dance that came into vogue about 1830 in Paris and after 1844 was used as an exhibition dance.

Origin of cancans

1840-50; French, repetitive compound (based on can) said to be nursery variant of canard duck; see canard

Examples for cancans

The cancan, a pitiably tame cancan, is danced—in public—only to satisfy 193 the curiosity of sensation-seeking tourists.

They might go and find the minister away, and then—voila, what a chance for cancan!

It's bad that that chap in the grey trousers should dare to dance the cancan so openly.

No rag-time was danced in those days, but early in the morning we had plenty of the cancan.

When he invites his friends to breakfast, the mice will dance the cancan!

The women who disport in the cancan at the same place are simply hired by the season.

From Sir Thomas's description one would imagine that the cancan was habitually danced at the balls he frequents.

Only this morning I open the ice box and they were all dancing the cancan.

The man in the plaid trousers is dancing the cancan with Aunt Merlin; it's most amusing!

cancan, the name of an ungraceful and indecent dance practised in the Paris dancing saloons.

Word Value for cancans
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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