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- noun
Depression ,melancholy .
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It documents the life of a chronic alcoholic who suffered continually from what he, following the French, called cafard-the cockroach that is a metaphor for overwhelming, debilitating depression.
Critical Mass Eric Banks 2010
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It documents the life of a chronic alcoholic who suffered continually from what he, following the French, called cafard-the cockroach that is a metaphor for overwhelming, debilitating depression.
Critical Mass 2010
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It documents the life of a chronic alcoholic who suffered continually from what he, following the French, called cafard-the cockroach that is a metaphor for overwhelming, debilitating depression.
Critical Mass 2010
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It documents the life of a chronic alcoholic who suffered continually from what he, following the French, called cafard-the cockroach that is a metaphor for overwhelming, debilitating depression.
Critical Mass Eric Banks 2010
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"It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues)."
The Jervaise Comedy 1910
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Vilain cafard ou jolie blatte forestière ambrée ? by Stephanie Booth on 22.09.2007
Vilain cafard ou jolie blatte forestière ambrée ? — Climb to the Stars 2007
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The chapter about the cafard and the search for a house with yellow windows is one for which I felt extraordinary empathy; I would love to have written this particularly, but writing such material surely had a certain price attached, and it's known that Cheever went through hell before receiving this vision.
My Book Meme 2006
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The chapter about the cafard and the search for a house with yellow windows is one for which I felt extraordinary empathy; I would love to have written this particularly, but writing such material surely had a certain price attached, and it's known that Cheever went through hell before receiving this vision.
Archive 2006-09-24 2006
whichbe commented on the word cafard
Severe depression or apathy; also, idiomatically, the blues.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word cafard
In the idion of who? Dörmögõ?
May 12, 2008
madmouth commented on the word cafard
according to Urquhart, a "dissembling religionary"
May 21, 2009