[C] Mistigri, misti, or misty: in the game of bouillotte, the knave of clubs.
[D] Cateau, an abbreviation of Catherine, used among the common people; vulgarly, a girl of slovenly habits and loose life.
[E] There is, or was, a game called brelan; but the term was sometimes applied, in bouillotte, to a hand consisting of two aces and a king, when the other king of the same color was turned.
[F] Substantially a repetition, in thieves' slang, of the clause beginning: "when the secretary——"
[G] As there were but twelve arrondissements in Paris, this expression was used to denote an illicit connection.
[H] Atelier—usually, an artist's studio; also, workroom.
[I] A particular kind of roll.
[J] The word marron, in the original, has a significance here that cannot be well rendered in English. It means, variously: an interloper, a runaway, an unlicensed broker.
[K] Cerf, stag (in argot, cuckold); cerf-volant, kite (in argot, thief).
[L] A female supernumerary in a ballet.