Il se voulut convertir; il bia trouver un chenâtre cornet d’épice, et rouscailla à sézière qu’il voulait quitter la religion prétendue pour attrimer la catholique.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ CORNICHE, _f._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile,” see TUBARD; (students’) _the military school of Saint-Cyr_. CORNICHERIE, _f._ (popular), _nonsense_; _foolish action_. CORNICHON, _m._ (students’), _candidate preparing for the Ecole Militaire de Saint-Cyr_. Literally _greenhorn_. CORNIÈRE, _f._ (thieves’), _cow-shed_. CORNIFICETUR, _m._ (popular), _injured husband_. CORPS DE POMPE, _m._, _staff of the Saint-Cyr school, and that of the school of cavalry of Saumur_. Saint-Cyr is the French Sandhurst. Saumur is a training-school where the best riders and most vicious horses in the French army are sent. CORRECTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner who plays the spy_, or “nark.” CORRESPONDANCE, _f._ (popular), _a snack taken at a wine-shop while waiting for an omnibus “correspondance.”_ CORRIDOR, _m._ (familiar), _throat_. Se rincer le ----, _to drink_, “to wet one’s whistle.” See RINCER. CORSÉ, _adj._ (common), properly _is said of wine with full body_. Un repas ----, _a plentiful meal_, or a “tightener.” CORSERIE, _f._ (familiar), _a set of Corsican detectives in the service of Napoleon III_. According to Monsieur Claude, formerly head of the detective force under the Empire, the chief members of this secret bodyguard were Alessandri and Griscelli. Claude mentions in his memoirs the murder of a detective who had formed a plot for the assassination of Napoleon in a mysterious house at Auteuil, where the emperor met his mistresses, and to which he often used to repair disguised as a lacquey, and riding behind his own carriage. Griscelli stabbed his fellow-detective in the back on mere suspicion, and found on the body of the dead man papers which gave evidence of the plot. In reference to the mysterious house, Monsieur Claude says:-- L’empereur s’enflamma si bien pour cette nouvelle Ninon que l’impératrice en prit ombrage. La duchesse alors .... loua ma petite maison d’Auteuil que le général Fleury avait choisie pour servir de rendez-vous clandestin aux amours de son maître.--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ CORSET, _m._ (popular), pas de ----! _sweet sixteen!_ CORVÉE, _f._ (prostitutes’), aller à la ----, _to walk the street_, une ---- being literally _an arduous, disagreeable work_. CORVETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _a kind of low, rascally Alexis_. Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin, Delicias domini..... COSAQUE, _m._ (familiar), _stove_. COSSER (thieves’), _to take_; ---- la hane, _to take a purse_, “to buz a skin.” COSTEL, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_, “ponce.” See POISSON. COSTUME, _m._ (theatrical), faire un ----, _to applaud an actor directly he makes his appearance on the stage_.