CARTE, _f._ (popular), femme en ----, _street-walker whose name is down in the books of the police as a registered prostitute_. Revoir la ----, _to vomit_, or “to cascade,” “to cast up accounts,” “to shoot the cat.” (Cardsharpers’) Maquiller la ----, _to handle cards_; _to tamper with cards_, or “to stock broads.” CARTON, _m._ (gamesters’), _playing-card_, or “broad.” Manier, tripoter, graisser, travailler, patiner le ----, _to play cards_. Maquiller le ----, _to handle cards_, _to tamper with cards_, or “to stock broads.” CARTONNEMENTS, _m. pl._ (literary), _manuscripts consigned to oblivion_. CARTONNER (gamesters’), _to play cards_. CARTONNEUR, _m._, _one fond of cards_. CARTONNIER, _m._ (popular), _clumsy worker_; _card-player_. CARTOUCHE, _f._ (military), avaler sa ----, _to die_, “to lose the number of one’s mess.” Déchirer la ----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. CARTOUCHIÈRE À PORTÉES, _f._, _pack of prepared cards which swindlers keep secreted under their waistcoat_, “books of briefs.” CARUCHE, _f._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” Comte de la ----, _jailer_, or “dubsman.” See MOTTE. CARVEL, _m._ (thieves’), _boat_. From the Italian caravella. CAS, _m._ (popular), montrer son ----, _to make an indecent exhibition of one’s person_. CASAQUIN, _m._ (popular), _human body_, or “apple cart.” Avoir quelquechose dans le ----, _to be uneasy_; _ill at ease in body or mind_. Tomber, sauter sur le ---- à quelqu’un, _to give one a beating_, “to give one Jessie.” Grimper, tanner, travailler le ----, _to belabour_, “to tan.” See VOIE. CASCADER (familiar), _interpolating by an actor of matter not in the play_; _to lead a fast life_. CASCADES, _f. pl._ (theatrical), _fanciful improvisations_; (familiar) _eccentric proceedings_; _jokes_. Faire des ----, _to live a fast life_. CASCADEUR (theatrical), _actor who interpolates in his part_; (familiar) _man with no earnestness of purpose, and who consequently cannot be trusted_; _fast man_. CASCADEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _fast girl or woman_. CASCARET, _m._ (thieves’), _two-franc coin_. CASE, CARRÉE, or PIOLE, _f._ (thieves’), _room_; _lodgings_, “diggings,” or “hangs out;” (popular) _house_; _any kind of lodgings_, “crib.” Le patron de la ----, _the head of any establishment_, _the landlord_, _the occupier of a house or apartment_. (Familiar) N’avoir pas de case judiciaire à son dossier _is said of one who has never been convicted of any offence against the law_. The “dossier” is a record of a man’s social standing, containing details concerning his age, profession, morality, &c. Every Parisian, high and low, has his “dossier” at the Préfecture de Police. CASIMIR, _m._ (popular), _waistcoat_, “benjy.” CASIN, _m._ (familiar), _pool at billiards_. CASINETTE, _f._ (popular), _habituée of the Casino Cadet_, a place somewhat similar to the former Argyle Rooms. CASOAR, _m._, _plume of shako_, in the slang of the students of the Saint-Cyr military school, the French Sandhurst.