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cafard

noun
ca·​fard | \ 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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