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Transcriber’s Note

In this text version of “Argot and Slang”:
  words in italics are marked with _underscores_,
  words in small capitals are shown in UPPER CASE.

In the body of the dictionary, the words being defined, originally
printed in bold, are shown in UPPER CASE, and the authors of
quotations, originally printed in small capitals, are marked with
equals signs and shown in =UPPER CASE=.

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the poem or extract in which
they occur.

Variant spelling and use of accents, inconsistent hyphenation and
capitalization are retained, as are English words spelt in the French
manner. There are many words with irregular placing of the apostrophe
in possessive plurals (e.g. womens', Fishermens') these have not been
changed.

The changes that have been made are listed at the end of the book.




[Illustration: ARGOT AND SLANG]




  ARGOT AND SLANG

  A NEW
  FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY

  OF THE

  CANT WORDS, QUAINT EXPRESSIONS, SLANG
  TERMS AND FLASH PHRASES

  USED IN THE HIGH AND LOW LIFE OF OLD
  AND NEW PARIS

  BY

  ALBERT BARRÈRE

  OFFICIER DE L’INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE

  _NEW AND REVISED EDITION_

  LONDON

  WHITTAKER AND CO., WHITE HART STREET
  PATERNOSTER SQUARE
  1889




PREFACE.


The publication of a dictionary of French cant and slang demands some
explanation from