cafard

plural cafards

1. Depression; melancholy.

   At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her.

   1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine

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   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.

   1918, Elizabeth Frazer, Old Glory and Verdun, page 169