Je me camoufle en pélican,
J’ai du pellard à la tignasse.
Vive la lampagne du cam!
Richepin.
Camouflet, m. (thieves’), candlestick.
[Camp], m. (popular), ficher le ——, to decamp. Lever le ——, to strike work. Piquer une romance au ——, to sleep.
Campagne, f. (prostitutes’), aller à la ——, to be imprisoned in Saint-Lazare, a dépôt for prostitutes found by the police without a registration card, or sent there for sanitary motives. (Thieves’) Barboteur de ——, night thief. Garçons de ——, or escarpes, highwaymen or housebreakers who pretend to be pedlars.
Campe, f. (cads’), flight; camping.
Camper (cads’), to flee, “to brush.”
Camperoux. See [Cambroux].