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How to pronounce cancan in English?

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Type of choreography, stage dancing

Examples of cancan

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There were 13 singers, a belly dancer, two who did monologues and a cancan dancer.
From the ocregister.com
His renewed focus appeared evident in an amped-up cancan-meets-punk look.
From the online.wsj.com
A chain of paper dolls in Augustine's outstretched hands becomes a line of cancan dancers.
From the washingtonpost.com
The Technicolor lends it zest, and the cancan finale is a delirious raise-the-roof setpiece.
From the independent.co.uk
It was the sassy Parisian cancan dancers who finally got rid of the open-crotch knicker design.
From the stuff.co.nz
The show closed with a dancer from the Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse doing the cancan down the runway.
From the online.wsj.com
However, in the poster of her doing the cancan at the Jardin de Paris, she's become an amber blonde.
From the theaustralian.com.au
A stroll along the main drag, ulica Dluga, allows you to soak in the city's gorgeous architectural cancan.
From the cnn.com
Dried-apple grandmothers line up like a babushka cancan.
From the kansas.com
More examples
  • A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line
  • The can-can (more correctly not hyphenated, as in the original French: cancan) is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the ...
  • A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France; A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side; To dance the cancan
  • A trick where the rider removes a foot from the pedal, extends it over the top tube and to the side of their body and then returns it to the pedal before landing. There's also the "no-foot can-can. ...
  • V. Radest maneuver you'll ever see! Rider kicks out foot opposite side over top tube while catching sick air.