On me gerbe à la grotte,
Au tap, et pour douze ans.
Vidocq.
Cigue, f. (thieves’), abbreviation of cigale, twenty-franc piece.
[Cimaise] (painters’), faire sa —— sur quelqu’un, to show up one’s own good qualities, whether real or imaginary, at the expense of another’s failings, in other words, to preach for one’s own chapel.
Ciment, m. (freemasons’), mustard.
Cingler (thieves’), se —— le blair, to get drunk, or “canon.”
Cinq-à-sept, m., a kind of tea party from five o’clock to seven in the fashionable world.
Cinq-centimadas, m. (ironical), one-sou cigar.
Cintième, m. (popular), high cap generally worn by women’s bullies, or “pensioners.”