cafard

I think it is as a refuge from the cafard,—a feeling of after all being a stranger in a strange land.

Officers of the Legion old enough to have won a few medals seemed to respect the cafard and make allowances for his deadly work.

They mustn't risk disgrace through things which the cafard might make him do.

Yesterday, without knowing why, I was a little sad: what soldiers call avoir le cafard.

The rest of my comrades in the room all had at different times the "cafard" more or less seriously….