BANQUISTE (thieves’), _one who prepares a swindling operation_. BAPTÊME, _m._ (popular), _head_, “nut.” BAQUET, _m._ (popular), _washerwoman_; ---- insolent, _same meaning_ (an allusion to the impudence of Parisian washerwomen); ---- de science, _cobbler’s tub_. BARANT, _m._ (thieves’), _gutter_, _brook_. From the Celtic baranton, _fountain_. BARAQUE, _f._, _disparaging epithet for a house or establishment_; (servants’) _a house where masters are strict and particular_; a “shop;” _newspaper of which the editor is strict with respect to the productions_; (schoolboys’) _cupboard_; (soldiers’) _a service stripe_; (sharpers’) _a kind of swindling game of pool_. BARBAQUE, or BIDOCHE, _f._ (popular), _meat_, or “carnish.” BARBE, _f._ (students’), _private coaching_. (Popular) Avoir de la ---- _is said of anything old, stale_. (Theatrical) Faire sa ----, _to make money_. (Familiar) Vieille ----, _old-fashioned politician_. (Printers’) Barbe, _intoxication_, _the different stages of the happy state being_ “le coup de feu,” “la barbe simple,” “la barbe indigne.” Prendre une ----, _to get intoxicated_, or “screwed.” (Popular) Barbe, _women’s bully_, or “pensioner.” BARBE À POUX, _m._, _an insulting expression especially used by cabbies, means lousy beard_. Also a nickname given sometimes to the pioneers in the French army on account of their long beards. BARBEAU, _m._ (popular), _prostitute’s bully_. Properly _a barbel_. BARBEAUDIER (thieves’), _doorkeeper_; _turnkey_, “dubsman,” or “jigger dubber;” ---- de castu, _hospital overseer_. Concerning this expression Michel says: Cette expression, qui nous est donnée par le Dictionnaire Argotique du Jargon, a été formée par allusion à la tisane que l’on boit dans les hôpitaux, tisane assimilée ici à la bière. En effet, _barbaudier_ avait autrefois le sens de _brasseur_, si l’on peut du moins s’en rapporter à Roquefort, qui ne cite pas d’exemple. En voici un, malheureusement peu concluant. Tais-toi, putain de barbaudier: Le coup d’œil purin. BARBEROT, _m._ (convicts’), _barber_, a “strap.” BARBET, _m._ (thieves’), _the devil_, “old scratch,” or “ruffin.” BARBICHON, _m._ (popular), _monk_. An allusion to the long beard generally sported by the fraternity. BARBILLE, BARBILLON, _m._, _girl’s bully_, _young hand at the business_. BARBILLONS, _m. pl._ (popular), de Beauce, _vegetables_ (Beauce, formerly a province); ---- de Varenne, _turnips_. BARBOT, _m._ (popular), _duck_; _girl’s bully_, “ponce.” See POISSON. (Thieves’) Vol au ----, _pocket-picking_, or “buz-faking.” Faire le ----, _to pick pockets_, “to buz,” or “to fake a cly.” BARBOTAGE, _m._, _theft_, “push.” From barboter, _to dabble_. BARBOTE, _f._ (thieves’), _searching of prisoners on their arrival at the prison_, “turning over.”