Les vieilles barbes indociles,
Fourbus, cassés, crevés, rouillés.
Le Triboulet, 1880.
The term is applied specially to the Republican politicians of 1848.
Vieux, adj. (familiar and popular), se faire ——, to feel dull; to be waiting for a long while. Se faire de —— os, to wait for a long while. Un —— cabas, a stingy old woman. (Popular) Vieux meuble, old man; —— comme Mathieu-salé, very old. (Literary) Vieux jeu, old-fashioned; (familiar) —— tison, old “gallivant.” Un —— de la vieille, old veteran. (Military) C’est ——! I am not to be taken in, “tell that to the marines.”
Vieux plumeau, m. (popular), old fool, “doddering old sheep’s head.”
Ell’ dit: Il ne sent pas bon!
—Pas bon?... Espèc’ de vieille cruche!
Dit la marchand’—Vieux plumeau!
T’en mang’rais plus que d’merluche!...