Kankan keening

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  • can-can: a French dance, usually performed on stage by the women of the chorus and once regarded as obscene
  • cancan: (french) gossip
  • k-k-keening → stutter, a sign of HCE's guilt
  • can: a tin can
  • can: a drinking cup; tankard
  • keening: (Anglo-Irish) crying, wailing, lamenting, mourning
  • ag caoineadh: (Irish) crying; keening; over a corpse → preformed by old women -payed mourners- dressed in black → directly opposed to the previous image of the can-can.
  • Cancun in Mexico, the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez.