LUNE, _f._ (thieves’), one franc; ---- à douze quartiers, _the wheel on which criminals were broken_. (Familiar and popular) Lune, _the behind_. See VASISTAS. Lune, _large full face_. Amant de la ----, _man with amatory intentions who frequently goes out on nocturnal, but fruitless_ “caterwauling” _expeditions_. Voir la ----, _is said of a maiden who is made a woman_. La petite a beau avoir de la dentelle, elle n’en verra pas moins la lune par le même trou que les autres.--=ZOLA=, _L’Assommoir_. LUNÉ, _adj._ (popular), bien ----, _in a good humour_, _well disposed_. LUNETTE, _f._ (popular), d’approche, _guillotine_. Passer en ----, _to take in_, “to do;” _to harm_. Etre passé en ----, _to fail in business_. Les lunettes, _posteriors_, or “cheeks.” (Popular) Lunettes, _small fry_. Je vais à la chasse aux ----, _I am going to fish for small fry_. LUQUE, _f._ (thieves’ and mendicants’), _certificate_; _false certificate, or false begging petition_, “fakement;” _passport_; _picture_. Je sais bien aquiger les luques, _I know well how to forge a certificate, or to make up pictures_. Porte ----, _pocket-book_, or “dummy.” It seems probable that the term “une luque,” a picture, is derived from Saint-Luc, who formed the subject of the pictures used formerly by mendicants to ingratiate themselves with monks and nuns, as mentioned by _Le Jargon de l’Argot_. LUQUET, _m._ (thieves’ and mendicants’), _forged certificate_, _or false begging petition_, “fakement.” LURON, _m._ (thieves’), avaler le ----, _to partake of communion_. The term was probably, in the origin, “le rond,” corrupted into its present form (Michel). LUSIGNANTE, _f._ (popular), _mistress_, or “moll.” LUSQUIN, _m._ (thieves’), _charcoal_. LUSQUINES, _f. pl._ (thieves’), _ashes_. LUSTRE, _m._ (thieves’), _judge_, or “beak.” (Theatrical) Chevaliers du ----, _men who are paid to applaud at a theatre_. Termed also “romains.” The staff of romains is termed “claque.” LUSTRER (thieves’), _to try a prisoner_, _to have him in for_ “patter.” LUTAINPEM, _f._ (thieves’ and cads’), _prostitute_, or “bunter.” See GADOUE. The term is nothing more than the word “putain” distorted by means of the syllable “lem.” See LEM. LYCÉE, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, “stir, or Bastile.” For synonyms see MOTTE. LYCÉEN, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner_. Termed also “élève du château.” LYONNAISE, _f._ (popular), _silk_, “floss.” Etre à la ----, _to wear a silk dress_. M MABILLARDE, _f._ (popular), _girl leading a dissolute life, an habituée of the Bal Mabille_. Called also “grue mabillarde.” MABILLIEN, _m._, MABILLIENNE, _f._ (popular), _male and female habitués of the Bal Mabille_, a place much frequented by pleasure-seeking foreigners. Les mabilliennes de 1863 se subdivisent en plusieurs catégories: la dinde, la solitaire, la grue.--_Les Mémoires du Bal Mabille._ MABOUL, _adj._ (general), _one_ “cracked,” _or one with_ “a screw loose.” From the Arab.