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 which women in brothels often have of powdering and dressing the hair in the fashion of the times of Louis XV.); une ouvrière (also a 'bully's' mistress. The term signifies, literally, 'a workwoman.' These wretched creatures support their companions who live and batten on what the woman earns in the sale of her person); une fesse (popular: properly 'a breech'); une marmite (harlotry: 'a flesh pot'); un torchon (a low class of woman; torchon = 'a dish clout'); une sauterelle (familiar: 'a grass-hopper'); un prat; une femme de cavoisi (thieves': a well dressed prostitute of the boulevards); une louille; une larque (a registered woman; a corruption of largue); une menesse (a thieves' term); une larguèpe; une magnuce (see une magneuse); une casserole (thieves': literally 'a saucepan'); une goipeuse (thieves': a name given to prostitutes who wander about the country); une ronfle; une ronfle à grippart; un ronfleur (thieves': ronfler is properly 'to snore'); un grippeur (gripper = 'to nab'; crib; clutch); une panterne; une bourre de sole (a kept woman; bourre = floss + sole = silk); un asticot (a bully's or thief's mistress; literally 'a maggot'; it may be stated that asticot is also used for both the membrum virile, and for vermicelli); une panuche (thieves': a term applied to showily dressed women who live in brothels); une calège (thieves': a kept woman; cale, a kind of head-dress); une ponante (thieves': a low-class prostitute); une môme or mômeresse (thieves'); une lutainpem (thieves'); une laissée (thieves' and roughs'); une galupe (popular: a street walking prostitute); une ponife, poniffe, or poniffle (thieves').

For German Synonyms, see Tart.

Italian Synonyms. Una sbriso (this term has another cant signification, viz., 'to be naked'; hence, probably, its attributive usage for a prostitute); una losena (this, like other Fourbesque terms for a woman, also means 'a woman of the town'; indeed in most argots there seems to be little, if any distinction drawn between women of easy virtue, and the sex as a whole); una guagnastra (i.e., one who acts as a sheath; the allusion is obvious. Cf., English 'broom' and 'broom-handle' for the female pudenda and the male penis respectively); una marcona (said to be an allusion to a certain incident in the history of the Papal States); una landra (curiously enough this term signifying, in orthodox Italian, a prostitute is, in the Fourbesque, synonymous also with 'woman.' The French andre, a woman of the town, dates back to the sixteenth century); una brocca (literally a jug, pitcher, or stupid person); una brocchiera (from Italian brocchiere, 'a buckler' or 'shield'); una baia (i.e., a mistress); una farfoia (also a nun, in which connection compare with English abbess); una chierlera (this term likewise is also used in the sense of a female devotee. Both the English and French slang have 'nun' as an equivalent for a prostitute); una carniera or carnifica (cant terms for a 'sister,' and 'fox' also); una cara