Trois-ponts, m. (familiar), high silk cap. Casquette à ——, prostitute’s bully. See [Poisson].
Trôleur, m. (popular), commissionnaire; vagrant, “pikey;” rabbit-skin man.
Trôleuse, f. (popular), street-walker. See [Gadoue]. From the verb trôler, to go about, derived from the German trollen. In English, to troll, hence trull.
Trombille, f. (thieves’), beast.
Trombine, f. (popular), head, or “tibby;” physiognomy, or “phiz.” See [Tronche]. Trombine en dèche, ugly face, “knocker-face.” Une rude ——, a grotesque face.
Tromblon, m. (familiar), hat, or “stove-pipe.”
Tromboller (roughs’), to love; —— les gonzesses, to be fond of women.
Trombone, m. (military), faire ——, to pretend to take money out of one’s pocket to pay for the reckoning. The movement to and fro of the hand is likened to the action of playing the trombone.
Trompe, f. (popular), nose.
Trompe-chasses, m. (thieves’), picture.