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cafard



ca·fard [ kȧfȧr]



cafard   
noun
[kȧfȧr]
plural -s

Definition of cafard

: severe depression or apathy used especially of white people in the tropics



First Known Use of cafard

1915, in the meaning defined above



History and Etymology for cafard

French, literally, cockroach, from Middle French, cockroach, hypocrite, modification of Arabic kāfir infidel



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