Crapeaux are really bad French hats, n'est ce pas?
crapeaux, surely.
Oh dear.
Derogatory for a seaman of the French whaling fleet. "There's a pretty fellow, now," he banteringly laughed, standing in the ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery..." - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 91
Crapeaux are really bad French hats, n'est ce pas?
crapeaux, surely.
Oh dear.
Derogatory for a seaman of the French whaling fleet.
"There's a pretty fellow, now," he banteringly laughed, standing in the ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery..."
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 91