Baluchon, m. (popular), parcel, or “peter.”
Bambino, bambochino, m. (popular), term of endearment for a child.
Bamboche, adj. (popular), être ——, to be tipsy, or “to be screwed.”
Banban, m. and f. (popular), lame person, “dot and go one;” small stunted person, “Jack Sprat.”
[Banc], m. (convicts’), camp bed; (Parisians’) —— de Terre-Neuve, that part of the Boulevard between the Madeleine and Porte Saint-Denis. Probably an allusion to the ladies of fishy character, termed “morues,” or codfish, who cruise about that part of Paris, and a play on the word Terre-Neuve, Newfoundland, where the real article is fished in large quantities. (Military) Pied de ——, sergeant. See [Pied].
Bancal, m. (soldiers’), cavalry sword.
Et, je me sens fier, ingambe,
D’un plumet sur mon colbac,
D’un bancal, et du flic-flac