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cancan

/kan-kan/US // ˈkænˌkæn //UK // (ˈkænˌkæn) //

坎儿井,罐头,坎特,罐头酒

Definitions

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

Examples

  • As we were all decidedly gay, somebody proposed dancing the cancan—the real thing.

  • One young woman startles the crowd by announcing that she will dance the cancan for half a dollar.

  • The music starts up just then, and she determines to do the cancan and risk the collection afterward.

  • Conducted by the Chevalier de Valois, a most able leader of an orchestra of this kind, the opening of the cancan was magnificent.

  • As yet, the two little women had ventured upon nothing more than permissible cancan steps.