CAMOUFLE, _f._ (thieves’), _description of one’s personal appearance_; _dress_; _light or candle_, “glim.” La ---- s’estourbe, _the light is going out_. CAMOUFLEMENT, _m._ (thieves’), _disguise_. CAMOUFLER (thieves’), _to learn_; _to adulterate_. Se ----, _to disguise oneself_. Je me camoufle en pélican, J’ai du pellard à la tignasse. Vive la lampagne du cam! =RICHEPIN.= CAMOUFLET, _m._ (thieves’), _candlestick_. CAMP, _m._ (popular), ficher le ----, _to decamp_. Lever le ----, _to strike work_. Piquer une romance au ----, _to sleep_. CAMPAGNE, _f._ (prostitutes’), aller à la ----, _to be imprisoned in Saint-Lazare, a dépôt for prostitutes found by the police without a registration card, or sent there for sanitary motives_. (Thieves’) Barboteur de ----, _night thief_. Garçons de ----, or escarpes, _highwaymen or housebreakers who pretend to be pedlars_. CAMPE, _f._ (cads’), _flight_; _camping_. CAMPER (cads’), _to flee_, “to brush.” CAMPEROUX. See CAMBROUX. CAMPHRE, _m._ (popular), _brandy_. CAMPHRIER, _m._ (popular), _retailer of spirits_; _one who habitually gets drunk on spirits_. CAMPI (cads’), _expletive_. Tant pis ----! _so much the worse!_ CAMPLOUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _country_. CAMUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _carp_; _death_; _flat-nosed_. CAN, _m._ (popular), abbreviation of canon, _glass of wine_. Prendre un ---- sur le comp, _to have a glass of wine at the bar_. CANAGE, _m._ (popular), _death-throes_. CANAILLADE, _f._ (popular), _offence against the law_. J’ai fait beaucoup de folies dans ma jeunesse; mais au cours d’une existence accidentée et décousue, je n’ai pas à me reprocher une seule canaillade.--=MACÉ.= CANAILLON, _m._ (popular), vieux ----, _old curmudgeon_. CANARD, _m._ (familiar), _newspaper_; _clarionet_; (tramcar drivers’) _horse_. (Popular) Bouillon de ----, _water_. (Thieves’) Canard sans plumes, _bull’s pizzle, or rattan used for convicts_. CANARDER (popular), _to take in_, “to bamboozle;” _to quiz_, “to carry on.” CANARDIER, _m._ (popular), _journalist_; _vendor of newspapers_; (journalists’) _one who concocts_ “canards,” _or false news_; (printers’) _newspaper compositor_. CANARIE, _m._ (popular), _simpleton_, or “flat.” CANASSON, _m._ (popular), _horse_, or “gee;” _old-fashioned woman’s bonnet_. Vieux ----! _old fellow!_ “old cock!” CANCRE, _m._ (fishermens’), jus de ----, _landsman_, or “land-lubber.” Cancre, properly _poor devil_. CANCRELAT, _m._ (popular), avoir un ---- dans la boule, _to be crazy_. For other kindred expressions, see AVOIR. Cancrelat, properly _kakerlac_, or _American cockroach_. CANE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_. CANELLE, _f._ (thieves’), _the town of Caen_. CANER (thieves’), la pégrenne, _to starve_. Caner, properly _to shirk danger_. CANESON. See CANASSON. CANETON, _m._ (familiar), _insignificant newspaper_. Termed also “feuille de chou.” CANEUR, _m._ (popular), _poltroon_, or “cow babe.”