Kankan keening

• 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.