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Definition of Cafard
1. the blues [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cafard
Literary usage of Cafard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy (1920)
"V "cafard" The soldier Jean Liotard lay, face to the earth, by the bank of the river
... He had "cafard," for he was due to leave the hospital ..."
2. High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall (1918)
"The British have it without giving it a name. They say "Fed up and far from home."
The more inventive French call it "cafard." Our outlook upon life is ..."
3. New Words Self-defined by Charles Alphonso Smith (1919)
"cafard The war seems to have made of the average soldier a philosopher and ...
Then he loses his smile and his banter and in soldier slang has the "cafard. ..."
4. "No. 6": A Few Pages from the Diary of an Ambulance Driver by C. de Florez (1918)
"How often shall I lay awake in far-away places haunted by "le cafard" for this
little room—for the good friends of Section 59 —and "No. 6. ..."
5. War Verses, 1917-1918 by Stephen Pell (1919)
"LE cafard. . . . When you hate the War and you hate your work, And you'd welcome
a German shell, That would break at your feet or over your head And blow ..."
6. The Gift of Paul Clermont by Warrington Dawson (1921)
"I knew they had never been more successful in driving Monsieur cafard away, than
that evening up to the moment when they dropped off to sleep, ..."
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