GILET, _m._ (popular), s’emplir le ----, _to eat or drink_. Avoir le ---- doublé de flanelle _is said of one who has comforted himself with a plate of thick, hot soup_. The English use the term “flannel” or “hot flannel” for a comforting drink of a hot mixture of gin and beer with nutmeg, sugar, &c. According to the _Slang Dictionary_ there is an anecdote told of Goldsmith helping to drink a quart of “flannel” in a night-house, in company with George Parker, Ned Shuter, and a demure, grave-looking gentleman, who continually introduced the words “crap,” “stretch,” “scrag,” and “swing.” Upon the Doctor asking who this strange person might be, and being told his profession, he rushed from the place in a frenzy, exclaiming, “Good God! and have I been sitting all this while with a hangman?” Un ---- à la mode, _opulent breasts_. (Familiar) Un ---- en cœur, _a dandy_, or “masher.” Amantha, que Corbois avait complètement perdue de vue, était aux Bouffes et faisait la joie des gilets en cœur.--=E. MONTEIL.= GILLE, _m._ (popular), faire ----, _to run away_, “to slope,” “bolt.” See PATATROT. The expression is old. Jupin leur fit prendre le saut. Et contraignit de faire gille, Le grand Typhon jusqu’en Sicile. =SCARRON.= Faire ---- déloge (obsolete), _to decamp_. GILMONT, _m._ (thieves’), _waistcoat_, or “benjy.” GILQUIN, _m._ (popular), coup de ----, _blow with the fist_, a “bang,” or “biff” (Americanism). GIMBLER (sailors’), _to moan_. Le vent gimble, _the wind moans, roars_. Bon! qu’il gimble tant qu’il voudra dans les agrès! Nous en avons troussé bien d’autres au plus près. Ce n’est pas encore lui qui verra notre quille. Souffle, souffle, mon vieux! souffle à goule écarquille! =RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_. GIN (thieves’), à son ----, _see! behold!_ This expression has been reproduced in the spelling of my informant, an associate of thieves. GINGIN, _m._ (popular), _good sense_; _behind_. See VASISTAS. GINGINER (popular), _to make one’s dress bulge out_; _to ogle_; _to flirt_. GINGLARD, GINGLET, or GINGUET, _m._ (popular), _thin sour wine_. GIRAFE, _f._ (popular), grande ----, petite ----, _spiral flights of steps_, _in the Seine swimming baths, with a lower and upper landing serving as diving platforms._ GIROFLE, _adj._ (thieves’), _pretty_, “dimber.” Largue ----, _pretty girl_, or “dimbermort.” GIROFLERIE, _f._ (thieves’), _amiability_. GIROFLETER (popular), _to smack one’s face_, “to warm the wax of one’s ear.” Synonymous of “donner du sucre de giroflée.” GIROLE (thieves’), expression of assent: _so be it_, “usher.”