Les nuages, c’était le ciel plumant ses poules, Et la foudre en éclats, Michel cassant ses œufs. Il appelait le vent du sud cornemuseux, Celui du nord cornard, de l’ouest brise à grenouille, Celui de suroit l’brouf, celui de terre andouille. =RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_. CIERGE, _m._ (thieves’), _police officer_, or “reeler.” For synonyms see POT-À-TABAC. CIG, _m._, CIGALE, or SIGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _gold coin_, or “yellow boy.” CIGALE, _f._ (popular), _female street singer_. Properly _grasshopper_; also _cigar_. CIGOGNE, _f._ (thieves’), _the “Préfecture de Police” in Paris_; _the Palais de Justice_; _court of justice_. Le dab de la ----, _the public prosecutor_; _the prefect of police_. Je monte à la cigogne. On me gerbe à la grotte, Au tap, et pour douze ans. =VIDOCQ.= CIGUE, _f._ (thieves’), abbreviation of cigale, _twenty-franc piece_. CIMAISE (painters’), faire sa ---- sur quelqu’un, _to show up one’s own good qualities, whether real or imaginary, at the expense of another’s failings_, in other words, _to preach for one’s own chapel_. CIMENT, _m._ (freemasons’), _mustard_. CINGLER (thieves’), se ---- le blair, _to get drunk_, or “canon.” CINQ-À-SEPT, _m._, _a kind of tea party from five o’clock to seven in the fashionable world_. CINQ-CENTIMADAS, _m._ (ironical), _one-sou cigar_. CINTIÈME, _m._ (popular), _high cap generally worn by women’s bullies_, or “pensioners.” CINTRER (popular), _to hold_; (thieves’) ---- en pogne, _to seize hold of_; _to apprehend_, or “to smug.” See PIPER. CIPAL, _m._ (popular), abbreviation of garde-municipal. The “garde municipale” is a picked body of old soldiers who furnish guards and perform police functions at theatres, official ceremonies, police courts, &c. It consists of infantry and cavalry, and is in the pay of the Paris municipal authorities, most of the men having been non-commissioned officers in the army. CIRAGE, _m._ (popular), _praise_, “soft sawder,” “butter.” CIRE, _f._, voleur à la ----, _rogue who steals a silver fork or spoon at a restaurant, and makes it adhere under the table by means of a piece of soft wax_. When charged with the theft, he puts on an air of injured innocence, and asks to be searched; then leaves with ample apologies from the master of the restaurant. Soon after a confederate enters, taking his friend’s former seat at the table, and pocketing the booty. CIRÉ, _m._ (popular), _negro_. From cirer, _to black shoes_. Termed also “boîte à cirage, bamboula, boule de neige, bille de pot au feu.” CIRER (popular), _to praise_; _to flatter_, “to butter.” CIREUX, _m._ (popular), _one with inflamed eyelids_. CISEAUX, _m. pl._ (literary), travailler à coups de ----, _to compile_. CITÉ, _f._ (popular), d’amour, _gay girl_, “bed-fagot.” Je l’ai traitée comme elle le méritait. Je l’ai appelée feignante, cité d’amour, chenille, machine à plaisir.--=MACÉ.=