Bassinoire, f., large watch, “turnip.” See [Bassin].
Basta (popular), enough; no more. From the Spanish.
Bastimage (thieves’), work, “graft.”
Bastringue, m. (popular), low dancing-hall; noise, disturbance, “rumpus;” (prisoners’) a fine steel saw used by prisoners for cutting through iron bars.
Bastringueuse, f. (popular), female habituée of bastringues, or low dancing-saloons.
Bataclan, m. (popular), set of tools; (thieves’) house-breaking implements, or “jilts.”
J’ai déjà préparé tout mon bataclan, les fausses clefs sont essayées.—Vidocq, Mémoires.
[Bataille], f., (military), chapeau en ——, cocked hat worn crosswise. Chapeau en colonne, the opposite of “en bataille.”
Bâtard, m. (popular), heap of anything.
Bate, f., (popular), être de la ——, to be happy, fortunate, to have “cocum.”