cancan
/kan-kan/US // ˈkænˌkæn //UK // (ˈkænˌkæn) //
坎儿井,罐头,坎特,罐头酒
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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