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Meaning of cafard | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Depression; melancholy.

Equivalents

Français cafard cafard

Examples

“That's the worst trouble with the soldiers in the trenches — nothing to do. It gives them the cafards, the black butterflies, the blue devils, the jimjams, the hump.”
“At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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