Is it mere coincidence that the most representative Parisian dance is called the cancan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinny Legs and All]

August 13, 2008 at 5:44 am i cancan has costyooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh hai. We’re here to help you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Substantives: le cancan, le caquètement, le nasillement.    From Wordnik.com.  [canard - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Chateau des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

His renewed focus appeared evident in an amped-up cancan-meets-punk look.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Haute Couture, '50s Glamour Meets the Cancan] Reference

French posters of ballet and cancan dancers had places of honor on the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 6]

The cancan dances, a centerpiece of cabaret, made performers particularly uneasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Morocco, a French Dancer Finds That Life Is Not a Cabaret] Reference

How sick, how misguided and out of touch with the public cancan a publication be?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: New York Sun: Cheney for President in 2008] Reference

Curtains go up, music starts to play and the leading Democrats start doing the cancan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » MSNBC Runs Entire Segment On Clinton’s Socks: ‘The Former President Was Showing Off A Little Leg’] Reference

And the same for the cancan turkey cupcakes - that I think look more like mini-pinatas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Really? I Mean, Really?!? (Yes, MORE Turkey Wrecks)] Reference

And it's Cannes without the cancan-don't expect to see Anita Ekberg rising from a fountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane and Silent Bob Strike Back] Reference

For some reason he was put in mind of Kato's copy of the Moulin Rouge, the redheaded cancan dancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 6]

Is it far-fetched to see (or rather to hear!) a connection with the 'French cancan' type of music???.    From Wordnik.com.  [canard - French Word-A-Day] Reference

On us so quickly: foreign cities, comedians in broken hats, cancan girls, fountains of fire, a noisy pit band.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

The crowd went wild for the S.V.A. entry, which featured cancan girls and automated puppets lip-synching to Cabaret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saul Bellow (1915-2005)] Reference

The score is dominated by pre-jazz rhythms: waltzes, schottisches, one-steps, and even the cancan (for the title song).    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of Our Dreams] Reference

And I stared out the door through the “Zorba the Greek” dance by the first-grade boys and the cancan by the fifth-grade girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoopi Shoopi Donna] Reference

In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step-dance, in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tailcoat permitted), and in part original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step dance, in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted), and in part original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells] Reference

Hose ~ Reasonable Desires tintable white cancan stockings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion World of SL] Reference

Baron Silberstein for a nice, quiet view of a genuine cancan.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Quarter] Reference

It's bit of farce with some men doing the cancan and the splits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

There were great set changes and of course they finished with a cancan!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

"Only this morning I open the ice box and they were all dancing the cancan.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography] Reference

Do we permit the cancan on the English stage? or aërial flights without nets?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

The Ladies Man, Molineaux tries to cheat on his wife and avidly chases the cancan dancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Webster Blog] Reference

"Spigoty" policemen of Bottle Alley dance a western cancan he bethought him of the No. 38.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers] Reference

One young woman startles the crowd by announcing that she will dance the cancan for half a dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference