CACHEMAR, CACHEMINCE, _m._ (thieves’), _cell_, “clinch.” From cachot, _black hole_. CACHEMIRE, _m._ (popular), _clout_; ---- d’osier, _rag-picker’s wicker basket_. Voici les biffins qui passent, le crochet au poing et les pauvres lanternes sont recueillies dans le cachemire d’osier.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. CACHE-MISÈRE (familiar), _coat buttoned up to the chin to conceal the absence of linen_. CACHEMITTE, _f._ (thieves’), _cell_, “clinch.” CACHEMUCHE. See CACHEMAR. CACHER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” CACHET, _m._ (thieves’ and cads’), de la République, _the mark of one’s heel on a person’s face_, a kind of farewell indulged in by night ruffians, especially when the victim’s pockets do not yield a satisfactory harvest. (Familiar) Le ----, _the fashion_, “quite the thing.” Et ce n’est pas lui qui porterait des gants vert-pomme si le cachet était de les porter sang de bœuf.-- =P. MAHALIN=, _Mesdames de Cœur Volant_. CACIQUE, _m._, _head scholar in a division at the Ecole Normale_. CADAVRE, _m._ (familiar and popular), _body_; _a secret misdeed_, “a skeleton in the locker;” _tangible proof of anything_. Grand ----, _tall man_. Se mettre quelquechose dans le ----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. CADENNE, _f._ (thieves’), _chain fastened round the neck_. La grande ---- _was formerly the name given to the gang of convicts which went from Paris to the hulks at Toulon_. CADET, _m._ (thieves’), _crowbar_, or “Jemmy.” Termed also “l’enfant, Jacques, sucre de pommes, biribi, rigolo;” (popular) _breech_. Baiser ----, _to be guilty of contemptible mean actions_; _to be a lickspittle_. Baise ----! _you be hanged!_ Bon pour ---- _is said of any worthless object or unpleasant letter_. CADICHON, _m._ (thieves’), _watch_, “Jerry,” or “red toy.” CADOR (thieves’), _dog_, “tyke;” ---- du commissaire, _secretary to the “commissaire de police,” a kind of police magistrate_. CADOUILLE, _f._ (sailors’), _rattan_. Effarés de ne pas recevoir de coups de cadouille, ils s’éloignent à reculons, et leurs prosternations ne s’arrêtent plus.--=BONNETAIN=, _Au Tonkin_. CADRAN, _m._ (popular), _breech_, or “bum;” ---- lunaire, _same meaning_. See VASISTAS. CADRATIN, _m._ (printers’), _top hat_, or “stove pipe;” (police) _staff of detectives_; (journalists’) _apocryphal letter_. CAFARD, _m._ (military), _officer who makes himself unpleasant_; _a busybody_. CAFARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, “parish lantern;” _cup_. CAFARDER (popular), _to be a hypocrite_, a “mawworm.” CAFÉ, _m._ C’est un peu fort de ----, _it is really too bad, coming it too strong_. Prendre son ----, _to laugh at_. CAFETIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _head_, “canister.” See TRONCHE. CAFIOT, _m._, _weak coffee_. CAFOUILLADE (boatmens’), _bad rowing_. CAFOUILLEUX, _m._ (popular), espèce de ----! _blockhead!_ “bally bounder!”