Clodoche, m. (familiar), description of professional comic dancer with extraordinarily supple legs, such as the Girards brothers, of Alhambra celebrity.
Cloporte, m. (familiar), door-keeper. Properly woodlouse. A pun on the words clôt porte.
Clou, m. (military), guard-room; cells, “jigger;” bayonet. Coller au ——, to imprison, “to roost.” (Popular) Clou, bad workman; pawnshop. Mettre au ——, to pawn, to put “in lug.” Clou de girofle, decayed black tooth. (Theatrical and literary) Le —— d’une pièce, d’un roman, the chief point of interest in a play or novel, literally a nail on which the whole fabric hangs.
Clouer (popular), to imprison, “to run in;” to pawn, “to blue, to spout, to lumber.”
Clous, m. pl. (popular), tools. (Printers’) Petits ——, type. Lever les petits ——, to compose. (Military) Clous, foot-soldiers, or “mud-crushers.”
Coaguler (familiar), se ——, to get drunk. See [Sculpter].
Côbier, m., heap of salt in salt-marshes.
[Cocanges], f. pl. (thieves’), walnut-shells. Jeu de ——, game of swindlers at fairs.
Cocangeur, m. (thieves’), swindler. See [Cocanges].