cancan
noun/ˈkænkæn/
/ˈkænkæn/
(often the cancan)
[singular]- a fast dance in which a line of women kick their legs high in the airWord Originmid 19th cent.: from French, child's word for canard ‘duck’, from Old French caner ‘to quack’.
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