CHAMPOREAU, _m._ (military), _beverage concocted with coffee, milk, and some alcoholic liquor, but more generally a mixture of coffee and spirits_. From the name of the inventor.
Le douro, je le gardais précieusement, ayant grand soin de ne pas l’entamer. J’eusse préféré jeûner un long mois de champoreau et d’absinthe.--=HECTOR FRANCE=, _Sous le Burnous_.
CHANCELLERIE, _f._ (popular), mettre en ----, _to put one in_ “chancery.”
CHANCRE, _m._ (popular), _man with a large appetite_, a “grand paunch.”
CHAND, CHANDE (popular), abbreviation of marchand.
CHANDELIER, _m._ (popular), _nose_, “boko,” “snorter,” or “smeller.” For synonyms see MORVIAU.
CHANDELLE, _f._ (military), _infantry musket_; _sentry_. Etre conduit entre quatre chandelles, _to be marched off to the guard-room by four men and a corporal_. La ---- brûle, _it is time to go home_. Faire fondre une ----, _to drink a bottle of wine_. Glisser en ----, _to slide with both feet close together_.
Mon galopin file comme une flèche. Quelle aisance! quelle grâce même! Tantôt les pieds joints, en chandelle: tantôt accroupi, faisant la petite bonne femme.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
CHANGER (popular), son poisson d’eau, or ses olives d’eau, _to void urine_, “to pump ship.” See LASCAILLER.
CHANGEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _clothier who provides thieves with a disguise_; _rogue who appropriates a new overcoat from the lobby of a house or club, and leaves his old one in exchange_. Also _thief who steals plate_.
CHANOINE, _m._, CHANOINESSE, _f._ (thieves’), _person in good circumstances, one worth robbing_; ---- de Monte-à-regret, _one sentenced to death_; _old offender_.
CHANTAGE, _m._ (familiar), _extorting money by threats of disclosures concerning a guilty action real or supposed_, “jobbery.”
CHANTER (familiar), _to pay money under threat of being exposed_. Faire ---- quelqu’un, _to extort money from one under threat of exposure_; _to extort_ “socket money.” (Popular) Faire ---- une gamme, _to thrash one_, “to lead a dance.” See VOIE.
CHANTEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _juge d’instruction, a magistrate who investigates a case before trial_; (familiar) _man who seeks to extort money by threatening people with exposure_. There are different kinds of chanteurs. Vidocq terms “chanteurs” the journalists who prey on actors fearful of their criticism; those who demand enormous prices for letters containing family secrets; the writers of biographical notices who offer them at so much a line; those who entice people into immoral places and who exact hush-money. The celebrated murderer Lacenaire was one of this class. Chanteur de la Chapelle Sixtine, _eunuch_. Maître ----, _skilful_ chanteur (which see).
