Corridor, m. (familiar), throat. Se rincer le ——, to drink, “to wet one’s whistle.” See [Rincer].
Corsé, adj. (common), properly is said of wine with full body. Un repas ——, a plentiful meal, or a “tightener.”
Corserie, f. (familiar), a set of Corsican detectives in the service of Napoleon III. According to Monsieur Claude, formerly head of the detective force under the Empire, the chief members of this secret bodyguard were Alessandri and Griscelli. Claude mentions in his memoirs the murder of a detective who had formed a plot for the assassination of Napoleon in a mysterious house at Auteuil, where the emperor met his mistresses, and to which he often used to repair disguised as a lacquey, and riding behind his own carriage. Griscelli stabbed his fellow-detective in the back on mere suspicion, and found on the body of the dead man papers which gave evidence of the plot. In reference to the mysterious house, Monsieur Claude says:—
L’empereur s’enflamma si bien pour cette nouvelle Ninon que l’impératrice en prit ombrage. La duchesse alors .... loua ma petite maison d’Auteuil que le général Fleury avait choisie pour servir de rendez-vous clandestin aux amours de son maître.—Mémoires de Monsieur Claude.
Corset, m. (popular), pas de ——! sweet sixteen!
Corvée, f. (prostitutes’), aller à la ——, to walk the street, une —— being literally an arduous, disagreeable work.
Corvette, f. (thieves’), a kind of low, rascally Alexis.
Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin,
Delicias domini.....
Cosaque, m. (familiar), stove.