cafard

Definition

Depression; melancholy.

Etymology

From French cafard.

Example Sentences

• "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."