FRIMAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _appearing before the magistrate, or in presence of a prosecutor, for identification_. FRIME, _f._ (thieves’), _face_, or “mug.” Avec un’ frim’ comm’ j’en ai une, Un mariol sait trouver d’la thune. =RICHEPIN=, _La Chanson des Gueux_. Molière uses the word with the signification of _grimace_:-- Pourquoi toutes ces frimes-là?--_Le Médecin malgré Lui._ Frime à la manque, _ugly face_; _face of a one-eyed person_, termed “a seven-sided animal,” as, says the _Slang Dictionary_, he has an inside, outside, left side, right side, foreside, backside, and blind side. Tomber en ----, _to meet face to face_. (Popular) Une ----, _falsehood_; _trick_. Quelque frime pour se faire donner du sucre! ah! il allait se renseigner, et si elle mentait!--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_. FRIMER (thieves’), _to peer into one’s face_. Faire ----, _to place a prisoner in presence of a prosecutor for purpose of identification_. (Popular) Frimer, _to make a good appearance_; _to look well_; _to pretend_. Cet habit frime bien, _this coat looks well_. Ils friment de s’en aller, _they pretend to go away_. FRIMOUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), _figure card_. (Popular) C’est pour ma ----, _that’s for me_. Literally _physiognomy_. FRIMOUSSER (card-sharpers’), _to swindle by contriving to turn up the figure cards_. FRIMOUSSEUR (card-sharpers’), _card-sharper_, “broadsman.” FRINGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _article of clothing_, “clobber.” (Popular) Les fringues, _players at a game called_ “l’ours.” These stand upright in a knot at the centre of a circle, face to face, with heads bent and arms passed over one another’s shoulders so as to steady themselves. The business of other players outside the circle is to jump on the backs of those in the knot without being caught by one called “le chien” or “l’ours,” who keeps running about in the circle. FRINGUER (thieves’), se ----, _to dress oneself_, “to rig oneself out in clobber.” FRIPE, _f._ (popular), _food_, “prog.” From the old word fripper, _to eat_; _cooking of food_; _expense_; _share in the reckoning_, or “shot;” ---- sauce, _cook_, or “dripping.” Faire la ----, _to cook_. FRIPIER, _m._ (popular and thieves’), _cook_, or “dripping;” _master of an eating-house, of a_ “carnish ken.” FRIPOUILLE, _f._ (familiar), _rogue_; _scamp_. From fripe, _rag_. Tout ce monde là c’est de la ----, _these people are a bad lot_. FRIQUES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _rags_. FRIQUET, _m._ (thieves’), _spy in the employ of the police_, “nark,” or “nose.” FRIRE UN RIGOLO (thieves’), _to pick the pockets of a person while embracing him, under a pretence of mistaken identity_. FRISCHTI, _m._ (military), _dainty food; stew_. FRISÉ, _m._ (popular), _Jew_, “sheney,” or “mouchey.” Termed also “youtre, pied-plat, guinal.” FRISQUE, _m._ (popular), _cold_. Le frisque du matin, qui ravigote le sang, qui cingle la vie--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. FRISSANTE, _f. adj._ (sailors’), _with gentle ripples_.