CORVÉE, _f._ (prostitutes’), aller à la ----, _to walk the street_, une
---- being literally _an arduous, disagreeable work_.
CORVETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _a kind of low, rascally Alexis_.
Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin,
Delicias domini.....
COSAQUE, _m._ (familiar), _stove_.
COSSER (thieves’), _to take_; ---- la hane, _to take a purse_, “to buz
a skin.”
COSTEL, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, “ponce.” See POISSON.
COSTUME, _m._ (theatrical), faire un ----, _to applaud an actor
directly he makes his appearance on the stage_.
COTE, _f._ (lawyers’), _stolen goods or money_; (sporting) _the
betting_. Frère de la ----, _stockbroker’s clerk_. Play on CÔTE, which
see. La ---- G., _purloining of articles of small value by notaries’
clerks when making an inventory_. Literally, la cote j’ai.
CÔTE, _f._ (thieves’), de bœuf, _sword_. Frère de la ----, see BANDE
NOIRE. (Familiar) Etre à la ----, _to be in needy circumstances_, “hard
up.” (Sailors’) Vieux frère la ----, _old chum_, _mate_.
CÔTÉ, _m._ (theatrical), cour, _right-hand side scenes_; ---- jardin,
_left-hand side scenes_. (Familiar) Côté des caissiers, _the station of
the_ “Chemin de fer du Nord,” _at which absconding cashiers sometimes
take train_.
CÔTELARD, _m._ (popular), _melon_.
CÔTELETTE, _f._ (popular), de menuisier, de perruquier, or de vache,
_piece of Brie cheese_. (Theatrical) Avoir sa ----, _to obtain
applause_. Emporteur à la ----, see EMPORTEUR.
CÔTE-NATURE, _f._ (familiar), for côtelette au naturel, _grilled chop_.
COTERIE, _f._ (popular), chum. Eh! dis donc, la ----! _I say, old
chum!_ Coterie, _association of workmen_; _company_. Vous savez, la
p’tite ----, _you know, chums!_
CÔTES, _f. pl._ (popular), avoir les ---- en long, _to be lazy_, _to be
a_ “bummer.” Literally _to have the ribs lengthwise, which would make
one lazy at turning about_. Travailler les ---- à quelqu’un, _to thrash
one_, _to give one a_ “hiding.” See VOIE.
CÔTIER, _m._ (popular), _extra horse harnessed to an omnibus when going
up hill_; also _his driver_.
CÔTIÈRE, _f._ (gambling cheats’), _a pocket wherein spare cards are
secreted_.
Aussi se promit-il de faire agir avec plus d’adresse, plus
d’acharnement, les rois, les atouts et les as qu’il tenait
en réserve dans sa côtière.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._
COTILLON, _m._ (popular), crotté, _prostitute_, “draggle-tail.”
Il était coureur ... il adorait le cotillon, et c’est pour
moi un cotillon crotté qui a causé sa perte.--=MACÉ=, _Mon
Premier Crime_.
Faire danser le ----, _to thrash one’s wife_.
COTON, _m._ (popular), _bread or food_ (allusion to the cotton-wick
of lamp); _quarrel_; _street-fight_; _difficulty_. Il y aura du ----,
_there will be a fight_; _there will be much difficulty_. Le courant
est rapide, il y aura du ----, _the stream is swift, we shall have to
pull with a will_.
COTRET, _m._ (popular), jus de ----, _thrashing with a stick_, or
“larruping;” might be rendered by “stirrup oil.” Des cotrets, _legs_.
(Thieves’) Cotret, _convict at the hulks_; _returned transport_, or
“lag.”
COTTE, _f._ (popular), _blue canvas working trousers_.
COU, _m._ (popular), avoir le front dans le ----, _to be bald, or to
have_ “a bladder of lard.” See AVOIR.
COUAC, _m._ (popular), _priest_, or “devil-dodger.”
COUCHE (popular), à quelle heure qu’on te ----? _a hint to one to make
himself scarce_.
COUCHER (popular), à la corde, _to sleep in certain low lodging-houses
with the head resting on a rope stretched across the room_, a “twopenny
rope;” ---- dans le lit aux pois verts, _to sleep in the fields_. Se
---- bredouille, _to go to bed without any supper_. Se ---- en chapon,
_to go to bed with a full belly_.
COUCOU, _m._ (popular), _watch_.
COUDE, _m._ (popular), lâcher le ----, _to leave one, generally when
requested to do so_. Lâche moi le ----, _be off_, _leave me alone_.
Prendre sa permission sous son ----, _to do without permission_.
COUENNE, _f._ (popular), _skin_, or “buff;” _fool_, or “duffer;” ----
de lard, _brush_. Gratter, râcler, or ratisser la ----, _to shave_.
Gratter la ---- à quelqu’un, _to flatter one_, _to give him_ “soft
sawder;” _to thrash one_. Est-il ----! _what an ass!_
COUENNES, _f. pl._ (popular), _flabby cheeks_.
COUILLÉ, _m._ (popular), _fool_, _blockhead_, “cabbage-head.”
COUILLES, _f. pl._ (popular), avoir des ---- au cul, _to be energetic,
manly_, “to have spunk.”
COUILLON, _m._ (popular), _poltroon_; _foolish with the sense of
abashed, crestfallen_. Il resta tout ----, _he looked foolish_. The
word is used also in a friendly or jocular manner.
COUILLONNADE, _f._ (popular), _ridiculous affair_; _nonsense_.
COUILLONNER (popular), _to show cowardice_; _to shirk danger_.
COUILLONNERIE, _f._ (popular), _cowardice_; _nonsensical affair_; _take
in_.
COUINER (popular), _to whimper_; _to hesitate_.
COULAGE, _m._, COULE, _f._ (familiar), _waste_; _small purloining by
servants, clerks, &c._
COULANT, _m._ (thieves’), _milk_.
COULANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _lettuce_. (Cads’) LA ----, _the river
Seine_.
COULE, _f._ (popular), être à la ----, _to have mastered the routine
of some business_, _to be acquainted with all the ins and outs_;
_to be comfortable_; _to be clever at evading difficulties_; _to be
insinuating_; _to connive at_. Mettre quelqu’un à la ----, _to instruct
one in_, _to make one master of the routine of some business_.
COULER (popular), en ----, _to lie_, “to cram one up.” La ---- douce,
_to live comfortably_. Se la ---- douce, _to take it easy_.
COULEUR, _f._ (popular), _lie_; _box on the ear_, or “buck-horse.”
Monter la ----, _to deceive_, “to bamboozle.” Etre à la ----, _to do
things well_.
COULEUVRE, _f._ (popular), _pregnant or_ “lumpy” _woman_.
COULISSE, _f._ (familiar), _the set of_ coulissiers. See this word.
COULISSIER, _m._ (familiar), _unofficial jobber at the Bourse or Stock
Exchange_. As an adjective it has the meaning of _connected with the
back scenes_, as in the phrase, Des intrigues coulissières, _back-scene
intrigues_.
COULOIR, _m._ (popular), _mouth_, or “rattle-trap;” _throat_, or “peck
alley.”
COUP, _m._ (popular), _secret process_; _knack_; _dodge_. Il a le
----, _he has the knack_, _he is a dab at_. Il a un ----, _he has a
process of his own_. Un ---- d’arrosoir, _a drink_. Se flanquer un
---- d’arrosoir, _to get tipsy_, or “screwed.” Un ---- de bouteille,
_intoxication_. Avoir son ---- de bouteille, _to be intoxicated_, “to
be boozy.” See POMPETTE. Coup de chancellerie, _action of getting
a man’s head_ “into chancery,” that is, to get an opponent’s head
firmly under one’s arm, where it can be pommelled with immense power,
and without any possibility of immediate extrication. Un ---- de
chien, _a tussle_; _difficulty_. Un ---- d’encensoir, _a blow on the
nose_. Un ---- de feu, _a slight intoxication_. Un ---- de feu de
société, _complete intoxication_. Un ---- de figure, _hearty meal_,
or “tightener.” Un ---- de fourchette, _digging two fingers into
an opponent’s eyes_. Un ---- de gaz, _a glass of wine_. Un ---- de
gilquin, _a slap_. Un ---- de pied de jument or de Vénus, _a venereal
disease_. Un ---- de Raguse, _action of leaving one in the lurch_; an
allusion to Marshal Marmont, Duc de Raguse, who betrayed Napoleon. Un
---- de tampon, _a blow_, or “bang;” _hard shove_ (tampon, _buffer_).
Un ---- de temps, _an accident_; _hitch_. Un ---- de torchon, _a
fight_; _revolution_. Le ---- du lapin, _finishing blow or crowning
misfortune, the straw that breaks the camel’s back_; _treacherous way
of gripping in a fight_.
Coup féroce que se donnent de temps en temps les ouvriers
dans leurs battures. Il consiste à saisir son adversaire,
d’une main par les testicules, de l’autre par la gorge,
et à tirer dans les deux sens: celui qui est saisi et
tiré ainsi n’a pas même le temps de recommander son âme à
Dieu.--=DELVAU.=
Coup du médecin, _glass of wine drunk after one has taken soup_. Un
---- dur, _unpleasantness, unforeseen impediment_. Attraper un ---- de
sirop, _to get tipsy_. Avoir son ---- de chasselas, de feu, de picton,
or de soleil, _to be half drunk_, “elevated.” See POMPETTE. Avoir son
---- de rifle, _to be tipsy_, “screwed.” Donner le ---- de pouce, _to
give short weight_; _to strangle_. Faire le ----, or monter le ---- à
quelqu’un, _to deceive, to take in_, “to bamboozle” _one_. Se donner
un ---- de tampon, or de torchon, _to fight_. Se monter le ----, _to
be too sanguine, to form illusions_. Valoir le ----, _to be worth the
trouble of doing or robbing_. Voir le ----, _to foresee an event_;
_to see the dodge_. Le ---- de, _action of doing anything_. Le ----
du canot, _going out rowing_. Coup de bleu, _draught of wine_. Avoir
son ---- de bleu, _to be intoxicated_, or “screwed.” Pomper un ---- de
bleu, _to drink_.
Faut ben du charbon ...
Pour chauffer la machine,
Au va-nu-pieds qui chine ...
Faut son p’tit coup d’bleu.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
(Thieves’) Coup à l’esbrouffe sur un pantre. See FAIRE. Un ----
d’acré, _extreme unction_. Le ---- d’Anatole, or du père François.
See CHARRIAGE À LA MÉCANIQUE. Un ---- de bas, _treacherous blow_.
Le ---- de bonnet, _the three-card trick dodge_. Coup de cachet,
_stabbing, then drawing the knife to and fro in the wound_. Un ----
de casserole, _informing against one_, “blowing the gaff.” Le ----
de manche, _calling at people’s houses in order to beg_. Un ---- de
radin, _purloining the contents of a shop-till, generally a wine-shop_,
“lob-sneaking.” Un ---- de roulotte, _robbery of luggage or other
property from vehicles_. Un ---- de vague, _a robbery_; _action of
robbing at random without any certainty as to the profits to be gained
thereby_. (Military) Coup de manchette, _certain dexterous cut of the
sword on the wrist which puts one hors de combat_. (Familiar) Un ----
de pied, _borrowing money_, or “breaking shins.” English thieves call
it “biting the ear.” Un ---- de pistolet, _some noisy or scandalous
proceeding calculated to attract attention_. Le ---- de fion,
_finishing touch_. Se donner un ---- de fion, _to get oneself tidy,
ship-shape_.
C’est là qu’on se donne le coup de fion. On ressangle
les chevaux, on arrange les paquetages et les turbans,
on époussette ses bottes, on retrousse ses moustaches et
on drape majestueusement les plis de son burnous.
--=H. FRANCE=, _L’Homme qui tue_.
(Servants’) Le ---- du tablier, _giving notice_.
COUPAILLON, _m._ (tailors’), _unskilful cutter_.
COUP DE TRAVERSIN, _m._ (popular), se foutre un ----, _to sleep_.
Trois heures qui sonn’nt. Faut que j’rapplique,
S’rait pas trop tôt que j’pionce un brin;
C’que j’vas m’fout’un coup d’traversin!
Bonsoir.
=GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_.
COUP DE TROTTINET, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), _kick_. Filer un ----
dans l’oignon, _to kick one’s behind_, or “to toe one’s bum,” “to
root,” or “to land a kick.”
COUPE, _f._ (thieves’), _poverty_. (Popular) Tirer sa ----, _to swim_.
COUPÉ, _adj._ (printers’), _to be without money_.
COUPE-FICELLE, _m._ (military), _artillery artificer_.
COUPE-FILE, _m._, _card delivered to functionaries, which enables them
to cross a procession in a crowd_.
COUPE-LARD, _m._ (popular), _knife_.
COUPER (popular), _to fall into a snare_; _to accept as correct an
assertion which is not so_; _to believe the statement of more or less
likely facts_; ---- dans le pont, or ---- dans le ceinturon, _to
swallow a fib, to fall into a snare_.
Vidocq dit comme ça qu’il vient du pré, qu’il voudrait
trouver des amis pour goupiner. Les autres coupent dans le
pont (donnent dans le panneau).--=VIDOCQ.=
COUPER LA CHIQUE, _to disappoint_; _to abash_; ---- la gueule à
quinze pas, _to stink_; ---- la musette, or le sifflet, _to cut the
throat_; ---- le trottoir, _to place one in the necessity of leaving
the pavement by walking as if there were no one in the way, or when
walking behind a person to get suddenly in front of him_; (military)
---- l’alfa, or la verte, _to drink absinthe_. Ne pas y ----, _not to
escape_; _not to avoid_; _to disbelieve_. Vous n’y couperez pas, _you
will not escape punishment_. Je n’y coupe pas, _I don’t take that in_.
(Coachmens’) Couper sa mèche, _to die_. See PIPE. (Gambling cheats’)
Couper dans le pont, _to cut a pack of cards prepared in such a manner
as to turn up the card required by sharpers_. The cards are bent in a
peculiar way, and in such a manner that the hand of the player who cuts
must naturally follow the bend, and separate the pack at the desired
point. This cheating trick is used in England as well as France, and
is termed in English slang the “bridge.”
COUPE-SIFFLET, _m._ (thieves’), _knife_, “chive.” Termed also “lingre,
vingt-deux, surin.”
COURANT, _m._ (thieves’), _dodge_. Connaître le ----, _to be up to a
dodge_.
COURASSON, _m._ (familiar), _one whose bump of amativeness is well
developed_, in other terms, _one too fond of the fair sex_. Vieux ----,
_old debauchee, old_ “rip.”
COURBE, _f._ (thieves’), _shoulder_; ---- de marne, _shoulder of
mutton_.
Les marquises des cagous ont soin d’allumer le riffe et
faire riffoder la criolle; les uns fichent une courbe de
morne, d’autres un morceau de cornant, d’autres une échine
de baccon, les autres des ornies et des ornichons.--_Le
Jargon de l’Argot._
COUREUR, _m._ (thieves’), d’aveugles, _a wretch who robs blind men of
the half-pence given them by charitable people_.
COURIR (popular), quelqu’un, _to bore one_. Se la ----, _to run_, _to
run away_, “to slope.” For synonyms see PATATROT.
COURRIER, _m._ (thieves’), de la préfecture, _prison van_, or “black
Maria.”
COURT-À-PATTES, _m._ (military), _foot artilleryman_.
COURTAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _shopman_, or “counter jumper.”
COURT-BOUILLON, _m._ (thieves’), le grand ----, _the sea_, “briny,”
or “herring pond.” Termed by English sailors “Davy’s locker.”
Court-bouillon properly is _water with different kinds of herbs in
which fish is boiled_.
COURTIER, _m._ (thieves’), à la mode. See BANDE NOIRE. (Familiar)
Courtier marron, _kind of unofficial stockjobber_, _an outsider_, or
“kerbstone broker.”
COUSIN, _m._ (thieves’), _cardsharper_, or “broadsman;” ---- de Moïse,
_husband of a dissolute woman_.
COUSINE, _f._ (popular), _Sodomist_; ---- de vendange, _dissolute girl
fond of the wine-shop_.
COUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), de castu, _hospital attendant_.
COUTEAU, _m._ (military), grand ----, _cavalry sword_.
COÛTER (popular), cela coûte une peur et une envie de courir, _nothing_.
COUTURASSE, _f._ (popular), _sempstress_; _pock-marked or_
“cribbage-faced” _woman_.
COUVENT, _m._ (popular), laïque, _brothel_, or “nanny-shop.”
Le 49 est un lupanar. Ce couvent laïque est connu dans
le Quartier Latin sous la dénomination de: La Botte de
Paille.--=MACÉ=, _Mon Premier Crime_.
COUVERCLE, _m._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.
COUVERT, _m._ (thieves’), _silver fork and spoon from which the
initials have been obliterated, or which have been_ “christened.”
COUVERTE, _f._ (military), battre la ----, _to sleep_. Faire passer à
la ----, _to toss one in a blanket_.
COUVERTURE, _f._ (theatrical), _noise made purposely at a theatre to
prevent the public from noticing something wrong in the delivery of
actors_.
Nous appelons couverture le bruit que nous faisons dans la
salle pour couvrir un impair, un pataquès, une faute de
français.--=P. MAHALIN.=
COUVRANTE, _f._ (popular), _cap_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.
COUVRE-AMOUR, _m._ (military), _shako_.
COUVREUR, _m._ (freemasons’), _doorkeeper_.
COUVRIR (freemasons’), le temple, _to shut the door_.
COUYON. See COUILLON.
COUYONNADE, _f._ See COUILLONNADE.
COUYONNERIE, _f._ See COUILLONNERIE.
CRABOSSER (popular), _to crush in a hat_.
CRAC. See CRIC.
CRACHER (popular), _to speak out_; ---- des pièces de dix sous, _to be
dry, thirsty_; ---- dans le sac, _to be guillotined_, _to die_; ----
ses doublures, _to be consumptive_. Ne pas ---- sur quelquechose, _not
to object to a thing_, _to value it_, “not to sneeze at.” (Musicians’)
Cracher son embouchure, _to die_. See PIPE.
CRACHOIR, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _mouth_, or “bone-box.” See
PLOMB. (General) Jouer du ----, _to speak_, “to rap,” “to patter.”
Abuser du ----, _is said of a very talkative person who engrosses all
the conversation_.
CRAMPE, _f._ (popular), tirer sa ----, _to flee_, “to crush.” See
PATATROT. Tirer sa ---- avec la veuve, _to be guillotined_.
CRAMPER (popular), se ----, _to run away_. See PATATROT.
CRAMPON, _m._ (familiar), _bore_; _one not easily got rid of_.
CRAMPONNE TOI GUGUSSE! (popular, ironical), _prepare to be astounded_.
CRAMPONNER (familiar), _to force one’s company on a person_; _to bore_.
CRAMSER (popular), _to die_.
CRAN, _m._ (popular), avoir son ----, _to be angry_. Faire un ----, _to
make a note of something_; an allusion to the custom which bakers have
of reckoning the number of loaves furnished by cutting notches in a
piece of wood. Lâcher d’un ----, _to leave one suddenly_.
CRÂNE, _adj._ (popular), _fine_.
CRÂNEMENT (popular), _superlatively_. Je suis ---- content, _I am
superlatively happy_.
CRÂNER (popular), _to be impudent, threatening_. Si tu crânes, je te
ramasse, _none of your cheek, else I’ll give you a thrashing_.
CRAPAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _padlock_; (military) _diminutive man_;
_purse in which soldiers store up their savings_; ---- serpenteux,
_spiral rocket_. (Popular) Crapaud, _child_, “kid.”
Ben, moi, c’t’existence-là m’assomme!
J’voudrais posséder un chapeau.
L’est vraiment temps d’dev’nir un homme.
J’en ai plein l’dos d’être un crapaud.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
CRAPOUSSIN, _m._ (popular), _small man_; _child_, or “kid.”
CRAPULOS, CRAPULADOS, _m._ (familiar and popular), _one-sou cigar_.
CRAQUELIN, _m._ (popular), _liar_. From craque, _fib_.
CRASSE, _f._ (familiar), _mean or stingy action_. Baron de la ----, see
BARON.
CRAVACHE, _f._ (sporting), être à la ----, _to be at a whip’s distance_.
CRAVATE, _f._ (popular), de chanvre, _noose_, or “hempen cravat;”
---- de couleur, _rainbow_; ---- verte, _women’s bully_, “ponce.” See
POISSON.
CRAYON, _m._, _stockbroker’s clerk_. The allusion is obvious.
CRÉATURE, _f._ (familiar), _strumpet_.
CRÈCHE, _f._ (cads’), faire une tournée à la ----, or à la chapelle,
_is said of a meeting of Sodomists_.
CREDO, _m._ (thieves’), _the gallows_.
CRÊPAGE, _m._ (popular), _a fight_; _a tussle_. Un ---- de chignons,
_tussle between two females_, in which they seize one another by the
hair and freely use their nails.
CRÊPER (popular), le chignon, or le toupet, _to thrash_, “to wallop.”
See VOIE. Se ---- le chignon, le toupet, _to have a set to_.
CRÉPIN, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob.”
CRÉPINE, _f._ (thieves’), _purse_, “skin,” or “poge.”
CRÈS (thieves’), _quickly_.
CRESPINIÈRE (old cant), _much_.
CREUSE, _f._ (popular), _throat_, “gutter lane.”
CREUX, _m._ (thieves’), _house_; _lodgings_, “diggings,” “ken,” or
“crib.” (Popular) Bon ----, _good voice_. Fichu ----, _weak voice_.
CREVAISON, _f._ (popular), _death_. Faire sa ----, _to die_. Crever,
_to die_, is said of animals. See PIPE.
CREVANT, _adj._ (swells’), _boring to death_; _very amusing_.
Que si vous les interrogez sur le bal de la nuit, ils
vous répondront invariablement, C’était crevant, parole
d’honneur.--=MAHALIN.=
CREVARD (popular), _stillborn child_.
CREVÉ (popular), _dead_. (Familiar) Petit ----, _swell_, or “masher.”
See GOMMEUX.
CRÈVE-FAIM, _m._ (popular), _man who volunteers as a soldier_.
CREVER (popular), _to dismiss from one’s employment_; _to wound_; _to
kill_; ---- la sorbonne, _to break one’s head_.
Mais c’ qu’est triste, hélas!
C’est qu’ pour crever à coups d’botte
Des gens pas palas.
On vous envoie en péniche
A Cayenne-les-eaux.
=RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_.
Crever la pièce de dix sous _is said of the practices of Sodomists_;
---- la paillasse, _to kill_.
Verger, il creva la paillasse
A Monseigneur l’Archevêque de Paris.
The above quotation is from a “complainte” on the murder of
the Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Sibour, in the church
Sainte-Geneviève, by a priest named Verger. A complainte is a kind
of carol, or dirge, which has for a theme the account of a murder or
execution. (Familiar) Crever l’œil au diable, _to succeed in spite of
envious people_. Tu t’en ferais ----, _expressive of ironical refusal_.
It may be translated by, “don’t you wish you may get it?” Se ----, _to
eat to excess_, “to scorf.”
CREVER À (printers’), _to stop composing at such and such a line_.
CREVETTE, _f._ (popular), _prostitute_, “mot.”
CRIBLAGE, CRIBLEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _outcry, uproar_.
CRIBLER (thieves’), _to cry out_; ---- à la grive, _to give a warning
call_; _to call out_ “shoe-leather!” _to call out “police! thieves!“_
“to give hot beef.”
On la crible à la grive,
Je m’ la donne et m’esquive,
Elle est pommée maron.
=VIDOCQ.=
CRIBLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de frusques, _clothier_; ---- de lance,
_water-carrier_; ---- de malades, _man whose functions are to call
prisoners to a room where they may speak to visitors_; ---- de
verdouze, a _fruiterer_.
CRIC, or CRICQUE, _m._ (popular), _brandy_, called “French cream” in
English slang. Faire ----, _to run away_, “to guy.” See PATATROT.
CRIC! (military), _call given by a soldier about to spin a yarn to
an auditory, who reply by a_ “crac!” _thus showing they are still
awake_. After the preliminary cric! crac! has been bawled out, the
auditory repeat all together as an introduction to the yarn: Cuiller
à pot! Sous-pieds de guêtres! Pour l’enfant à naître! On pendra la
crémaillère! Chez la meilleure cantinière! &c., &c.