(Artists’) Tripoter la couleur, to paint. Tripoté, painted in masterly style.
Comme c’est tripoté!... quel beurre! Il est impossible d’être plus chaud et plus grouillant.—Th. Gautier, Les Jeune France.
Triquage, m. (rag-pickers’), sorting of rags.
Triquart, m., or trique, f. (thieves’), liberated convict under the surveillance of the “haute police.” Similarly to ticket-of-leave convicts in England, a man under the surveillance of the police is obliged to report himself from time to time, and a place of residence is assigned to him which he cannot leave without permission.
Trique, f. (thieves’), tooth, or “ivory;” cab, or “cask;” a convict returned from transportation before his time, or “yoxter.” Also one under police supervision. (Popular) Trique à larder, or —— à picoter, sword-stick. Faire flamber la —— à larder, to use a sword-stick. Trique, properly cudgel, termed “trucco” in the Italian cant.
Triquebille, m. (obsolete). See [Flageolet].
Triquer (popular), to sort rags; to cudgel; (thieves’) to be under police surveillance as a ticket-of-leave.
Triquet, m. (thieves’), police spy, one who watches ticket-of-leave men, termed “triques.”
Triqueur, m. (popular), master rag-picker, one who sorts rags.
Troez (Breton cant), porridge.