FISTON, _m._ (popular), _term of endearment_. Mon ----, _my son, sonny_. Mon vieux ----, _old fellow_. FLAC, _m._ (thieves’), _sack_; ---- d’al, _money-bag_; _bed_, or “kip.” FLACHE, _f._ (popular). See FLANCHE. FLACONS, _m._ (popular), _shoes_, “trotter cases.” See RIPATONS. Déboucher ses ----, _to take off one’s shoes_. FLACUL, _m._ (thieves’), _bed_, or “kip;” _money-bag_. Le vioque a des flaculs pleins de bille; s’il va à Niort, il faut lui riffauder les paturons.--=VIDOCQ.= (_The old man has bagfuls of money; if he denies it, we’ll burn his feet._) FLAFLA, _m._ (familiar and popular), _great showing off_. Faire du ----, _to show off_; _to flaunt_. FLAGEOLET, _m._ (obsolete), called by Horace _cauda salax_. FLAGEOLETS, _m._ (popular), _legs_, “pegs.” Termed also “fumerons, guibes, guibolles.” FLAMBANT, _m. and adj._ (military), _artillery man_, “son of a gun;” (familiar and popular) _magnificent_, “slap up, clipping, nap.” FLAMBARD, _m._ (thieves’), _dagger_. Formerly termed “cheery;” (familiar and popular) _one who has dash_; _one who shows off_. Tas d’flambards, tas d’chicards, Les canotiers de la Seine, Sont partout, bien reçus, Et partout font du chahut. _Parisian Song._ FLAMBARDE, _f._ (popular), _pipe_. Termed “dudeen” by the Irish; (thieves’) _candle_, or “glim.” FLAMBE, _f._ (thieves’), _sword_, or “poker.” Petite ----, _knife_, or “chive.” From Flamberge, name given by Renaud de Montauban (one of the four sons of Aymon who revolted against Charlemagne, and who have been made, together with their one charger Bayard, the heroes of chivalry legends), to his sword, and now used in the expression, Mettre flamberge au vent, _to draw_. FLAMBER (mountebanks’), _to perform_; (familiar and popular) _to make a show_; _to shine_. Ils voulaient flamber avec l’argent volé, ils achetaient des défroques d’hasard.--=E. SUE.= FLAMBERT, _m._ (thieves’), _dagger_. Termed “cheery” in the old English cant. FLAMBOTTER AUX ROTTINS (card-sharpers’), _kind of swindling game at cards_. FLAMSICK, FLAMSIQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _Flemish_. FLAN, _m._ (thieves’), c’est du ----, _it is excellent_. Au ----, _it is true_. A la ----, _at random_, _at_ “happy go lucky.” (Popular) Du ----! _an ejaculation expressive of refusal_. See NÈFLES. FLANCHARD, FLANCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _cunning player_; _one who hesitates, who backs out_. FLANCHE, _m._ (thieves’), _game of cards_; _theft_; _plant_. Grande ----, _roulette or trente et un_. Un ---- mûr, _preconcerted robbery or crime for the perpetration of which the time has come_. (Popular) Flanche, _dodge_; _contrivance_; _affair_; _job_. Il connaît le ----, _he knows the dodge_. Foutu ----! _a bad job!_ C’est ----! _it is all right_. Toujours des injustices; mais attendons; c’est point fini c’flanche là.--=TRUBLOT=, _Le Cri du Peuple_, March, 1886.