[ˈkankan], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a lively, high-kicking stage dance originating in 19th-century Parisian music halls and performed by women in long skirts and petticoats
(e.g: people were dancing the cancan)


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Origin:
mid 19th century: from French, child's word for canard ‘duck’, from Old French caner ‘to quack’