(Military) Cheval de l’adjudant, _camp bed of cell_; (familiar) ---- qui la connaît dans les coins, _a clever horse_. Literally _skilful at turning the corners_. (Popular) Faire son ---- de corbillard, _to put on a jaunty look_; _to give oneself conceited airs_; _to bluster_, or, as the Americans say, “to be on the tall grass.” CHEVALIER, _m._ (popular), de la courte lance, _hospital assistant_; ---- de la grippe, _thief_, or “prig.” See GRINCHE. Chevalier de la manchette, _Sodomist_; ---- de la pédale, _one who works a card-printing machine_; ---- de l’aune, _shopman_, or “knight of the yard;” ---- de salon, de tapis vert, _gamester_; ---- du bidet, _women’s bully_, or “pensioner.” See POISSON. Chevalier du crochet, _rag-picker_, or “bone-grubber;” ---- du lansquenet, _gambling cheat who has recourse to the card-sharping trick denominated_ “le pont” (which see); ---- du lustre, “_claqueur_,” _that is, one who is paid for applauding at theatres_; ---- du printemps, or de l’ordre du printemps, _silly fellow who flowers his button-hole to make it appear that he has the decoration of the “Légion d’Honneur;”_ ---- grimpant, see VOLEUR AU BONJOUR. CHEVAU-LÉGER, _m._ (familiar), _ultra-Conservative of the Legitimist and Clerical party_. The chevau-légers were formerly a corps of household cavalry. CHEVAUX, _m. pl._ (popular), à doubles semelles, _legs_. Compare the English expression, “to ride Shank’s mare, or pony.” CHEVELU, _adj._ (familiar), art ----, littérateur ----, poète ----, _art, literary man, poet of the “école romantique,” of which the chief in literature was Victor Hugo_. CHEVEU, _m._ (familiar), _difficulty_; _trouble_; _hindrance_; _hitch_. Voilà le ----, _ay, there’s the rub_. J’ai un ----, _I have some trouble on my mind, reason for uneasiness_. Il y a un ---- dans son bonheur, _there is some trouble that mars his happiness_. (Popular) Avoir un ---- pour un homme, _to fancy a man_. (Theatrical) Cheveu, _unintentional jumbling of words by transposition of syllables_. This kind of mistake when intentional Rabelais termed “équivoquer.” En l’aultre deux ou trois miroirs ardents dont il faisait enrager aulcunes fois les hommes et les femmes et leur faisait perdre contenance à l’ecclise. Car il disait qu’il n’y avait qu’une antistrophe entre femme folle à la messe et femme molle à la fesse.--=RABELAIS=, _Pantagruel_. See also _Œuvres de Rabelais_ (Garnier’s edition), _Pantagruel_, page 159. CHEVEUX, _m._ (familiar and popular), avoir mal aux ----, _to have a headache caused by overnight potations_. Faire des ---- gris à quelqu’un, _to trouble one_, _to give anxiety to one_. Se faire des ---- blancs, _to fret_; _to feel annoyed at being made to wait a long time_. Trouver des ---- à tout, _to find fault with everything_. (Military) Passer la main dans les ----, _to cut one’s hair_. CHEVILLARD, _m._ (popular), _butcher in a small way_. CHEVILLES, _f._ (popular), _fried potatoes_. Termed “greasers” at the R. M. Academy.