Cabotine (familiar), bad actress; strolling actress, or one who belongs to a troupe of “barn stormers.”
Cabotiner (familiar), to be a strolling actor; to mix with cabotins; to fall into their way of living, which is not exactly a “proper” one.
Caboulot, m. (familiar), small café where customers are waited upon by girls; small café where the spécialité is the retailing of cherry brandy, absinthe, and sweet liquors; best sort of wine-shop.
Cabriolet, m., short rope or strap with a double loop affixed, made fast to a criminals wrists, the extremity being held by a police officer; small box for labels; woman’s bonnet.
Cabrion, m. (artists’), painter without talent, or “dauber;” practical joker. In the Mystères de Paris of Eugène Sue, Cabrion, a painter, nearly drives the doorkeeper Pipelet mad by his practical jokes.
Cachalot, m. (sailors’), old sailor, old “tar.” Properly spermaceti whale.
Cache-folie, m. (popular), drawers; false hair.
[Cachemar], cachemince, m. (thieves’), cell, “clinch.” From cachot, black hole.
Cachemire, m. (popular), clout; —— d’osier, rag-picker’s wicker basket.
Voici les biffins qui passent, le crochet au poing et les pauvres lanternes sont recueillies dans le cachemire d’osier.—Richepin, Le Pavé.