Au Rappel, la pige dure six heures avec une brisure d’une demi-heure à dix heures.--=BOUTMY.=
BROBUANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _ring_, “fawney.”
BROC, _m._ (thieves’), _farthing_, or “fadge.”
BROCANTER (familiar), _to be pottering about_.
BROCHE, _f._ (tradespeoples’), _note of hand_, or “stiff.”
BROCHES, _f. pl._ (popular), _teeth_, or “head rails.”
BROCHET, _m._ (popular), _pit of the stomach_, for bréchet; _women’s bully_, or “ponce.”
BROCHETON, _m._ (popular), _young bully_.
BROCHURE, _f._ (theatrical), _printed play_.
BRODANCHER (thieves’), _to write_; _to embroider_. Tirants brodanchés, _embroidered stockings_.
BRODANCHEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _writer_; ---- en cage, _scribe who for a consideration will undertake to do an illiterate person’s correspondence_ (termed écrivain public); ---- à la plaque, aux macarons, or à la cymbale, _notary public_ (an allusion to the escutcheon placed over a notary’s door).
BRODER (thieves’), _to write_; ---- sur les prêts _is said of a gamester who, having lent a colleague a small sum of money, claims a larger amount than is due to him._
Pas de broderie, par exemple, tu connais le proverbe, les écrits sont des mâles, et les paroles sont des femelles.--=VIDOCQ=, _Mémoires_.
BRODEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _writer_; also _a gamester who claims a larger sum than is due to him._
BROQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _farthing_. Il n’y a ni ronds, ni herplis, ni broque en ma felouse. _I haven’t got a sou, or a farthing, in my pocket._
BROQUILLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _theft which consists in substituting paste diamonds for the genuine article which a jeweller displays for the supposed purchaser’s inspection_.
BROQUILLE, _f._ (theatrical), _nothing_. Used in the expression, Ne pas dire une ----, _not to know a single word of one’s part_; (thieves’) _a ring_, or “fawney;” _a minute_.
BROQUILLEUR, _m._, BROQUILLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _thief who robs jewellers by substituting paste diamonds for the genuine which are shown to him as to a bonâ-fide purchaser_.
BROSSE (popular), _no_; _nothing_; ---- pour lui! _he shan’t have any!_
BROSSER (familiar), se ---- le ventre, _to go without food, and, in a figurative sense, to be compelled to do without something_.
BROSSEUR, _m._ (artists’), _one who paints numerous pictures of very large dimensions_. Rubens was a “brosseur;” (military) _flatterer_, _one who_ “sucks up.”