Sardine, f. (popular). Serrer les cinq sardines, to shake hands. Rabelais uses the verb fourcher with a like signification. (Military) Sardines, stripes on the sleeves of a tunic. Sardines blanches, those worn by gendarmes.
Deux gendarmes un beau dimanche,
Chevauchaient le long d’un sentier.
L’un avait la sardine blanche,
L’autre le jaune baudrier.
G. Nadaud, Les Deux Gendarmes.
Sardiné, m. (military), non-commissioned officer.
[Sarrasin], m. (printers’), workman who works at reduced wages, or refuses to join in strikes, a “knob-stick.”
Sarrasinage, sarrasiner. See [Sarrasin].
Satin, f. (popular), a “tribade.” Defined by Littré as “une femme qui abuse de son sexe avec une autre femme.” From a character in Zola’s Nana.