Trifoin, m. (popular and thieves’), tobacco, “fogus.”
Trifouiller (popular), to search; to fumble; —— les guiches, to comb.
Trimancher (thieves’), to walk along the road.
Trimar, trimard, m. (thieves’), road, or “Toby.” Trimar, from trimer, to run about on some unpleasant duty. Aller au ——, to be a highwayman. In English cant a highwayman was termed a “bridle-cull.”
A booty of £10 looks as great in the eye of a “bridle-cull,” and gives as much real happiness to his fancy, as that of many thousands to the statesman.—Fielding, Jonathan Wild.
(Prostitutes’) Faire son ——, to walk the street. Synonymous of “faire le trottoir, faire son quart, aller au persil, aller au trot.”
Trimardant, m. (thieves’), wayfarer.
Trimarde, f. (thieves’), street, or “drag.”
Trimarder, or trimer (thieves’), to walk along the road or street.