Renaissance, f. (popular), shoddy.
Renard, m. (popular), apprentice; mixture of broth and wine.
Il va prendre son renard: un bouillon et une chopine de vin dedans.—Le Sublime.
Also vomit. Piquer un ——, to vomit, “to shoot the cat.” Queue de ——, vomited matter. (Thieves’) Renard, spy at the hulks. (Booksellers’) Renard, valuable work found by an amateur at a bookstall among worthless books.
Renarder (popular), to vomit, “to shoot the cat.”
Vous me permettrez de renarder dans le Kiosque.—Balzac.
Termed formerly “chasser, or escorcher le regnard.”
Et tous ces bonnes gens rendoyent là leurs gorges devant tout le monde, comme s’ilz eussent escorché le regnard.—Rabelais.
Cotgrave translates this expression by “to spue, cast, vomit (especially upon excessive drinking); either because in spuing one makes a noise like a fox that barks; or (as in escorcher) because the flaying of so unsavory a beast will make any man spue.”
Renaré, m. (popular), crafty man, “sly blade, or sharp file,” one who is “fly to wot’s wot.”