BRASER (thieves’), des faffes, _to forge documents_, to “screeve fakements;” _to forge bank-notes_, or to “fake queer-soft.” BRASSET, _m._ (thieves’), _big, stout man_. BRAVE, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob.” BRÉCHET, _m._ (popular), _stomach_. BRÈCHETELLES, _f._, _a kind of German cakes eaten at beershops_. BREDA-STREET, _the quarter of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette patronized by women of the demi-monde_ (the Paris Pimlico, or St. John’s Wood). BREDOCHE, _f._ (popular), _centime_. BREDOUILLE, _f._ (popular), chevalier de la ----, _one who goes out shooting on Sundays in the purlieus of Paris_. From revenir bredouille, _to return with an empty bag_. BRELOQUE, _f._ (popular), _a clock_. Properly _watch trinket_. BRÈME, _m. and f._ (popular), _vendor of countermarks at the door of theatres_. Une ----, _f._ (thieves’), _playing card_, “flat,” or “broad” (brème is a flat fish, _the bream_). Une ---- de pacquelins, _geographical map_. Maquiller les brèmes, _to handle cards, to play at cards_, “to fake broads;” _to mark cards in certain ways, to construct them on a cheating principle_, “to stock briefs.” Maquilleur de brèmes, _card-sharper_, or “broadsman,” _generally one whose spécialité is the three-card trick_. Le perdant, blème, crispe ses poings. Les compères s’approchent du maquilleur de brèmes (tripoteur de cartes), qui s’est relevé, avec un éclair mauvais dans ses yeux ternes ... il se recule et siffle. A ce signal arrive un gosse, en courant, qui crie d’une voix aiguë: Pet! v’là la rousse! Décanillons!--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. (Prostitutes’) Une brème, _card delivered by the police to registered prostitutes_. Fille en ----, _registered prostitute_. BRÊMEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _card player_, “broad faker.” BRÊMIER, _m._ (thieves’), _manufacturer of playing cards_. BRÉSILIEN, _m._ (popular), _wealthy, generous man_, “rag-splawger.” BRICABRACOLOGIE, _art of dealing in or collecting bric-à-brac or knick-knacks_. BRICARD, _m._ (popular), _staircase_. BRICHETON, _m._ (popular), _bread_; ---- d’attaque, _four-pound loaf_. BRICOLE, _f._ (popular), _small, odd jobs that only procure scanty profits_. Properly _a shoulder-strap used by costermongers to draw their barrows_. BRICOLER (popular), _to make an effort_; _to give a good pull_; _to do anything in a hurried and clumsy manner_; _to carry on some affair in a not over straightforward way_. BRICOLEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who will undertake any kind of work, any sundry jobs_. BRICUL, BRICULÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _police inspector_. BRIDAUKIL (thieves’), _gold watch chain_, “redge slang,” or “red tackle.” BRIDE, _f._ (thieves’), _watch chain_, “slang;” _convict’s chain_. (Popular) Vieille ----, _worthless, discarded object_; _term of contempt for individuals_. BRIDÉ (thieves’), _shackled_. BRIDER (thieves’), _to shut_, “to dub;” _to fasten on a fetter_, or “wife.” BRIF (Breton), _bread_.