Douloureuse, f. (popular), reckoning at an eating-house. The term is expressive of one’s sorrow when comes the dreaded “quart d’heure de Rabelais.”
Dousse, f. (thieves’), fever.
Doussin, m. (thieves’), lead, “bluey.”
Doussiner (thieves’), to line with lead.
Doux, m. (popular), du ——, some sweet liquor such as Chartreuse, Curaçao.
Dovergn (Breton), horse.
Dragée, f. (military), bullet, “plum.” Dragée, properly sweetmeat. Gober une ——, to receive a bullet.
Dragons. See [Aller voir défiler].
Drague, f. and m. (popular), une ——, table, implements or plant of a conjuror, of a mountebank. (Thieves’) Un ——, surgeon, “nim gimmer.”
Dragueur, m. (popular), quack, “crocus;” conjurer; mountebank.