Larme du compositeur, f. (printers’), comma.
Larnac, arnac, or arnache, m. (thieves’), police officer, “copper,” or “reeler.” Rousse à l’——, detective. For synonymous expressions see [Vache].
Larque, f. (roughs’), woman, or “cooler;” registered prostitute. A corruption of largue. See [Gadoue].
Larrons, m. pl. (printers’), odd pieces of paper which adhere to sheets in the press, producing “moines” or blanks.
Lartif, lartie, larton, m. (thieves’), bread, “pannum.” Termed also “briffe, broute, pierre dure, artie, arton, brignolet, bringue, boule de son, bricheton.”
Lartille à plafond, f. (thieves’), pastry.
Lartin, m. (old cant), beggar, “maunderer.”
Larton, m. (thieves’), bread, “pannum;” —— brutal, black bread; —— savonné, white bread.
Lartonnier, m. (thieves’), baker. From larton, bread. In the English popular lingo a “dough-puncher.”
[Lascailler] (thieves’), to void urine, “to pump ship.” For synonyms see [Lâcher].