BRANLANTE, _f._ (popular), _watch_, or “ticker.”
BRANLANTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _old men’s teeth_.
BRANQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _donkey_, “moke.”
BRAS, BRASSE, _adj._ (thieves’), _large_. From brasse, _a fathom_.
BRASER (thieves’), des faffes, _to forge documents_, to “screeve fakements;” _to forge bank-notes_, or to “fake queer-soft.”
BRASSET, _m._ (thieves’), _big, stout man_.
BRAVE, _m._ (popular), _shoemaker_, or “snob.”
BRÈCHETELLES, _f._, _a kind of German cakes eaten at beershops_.
BREDA-STREET, _the quarter of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette patronized by women of the demi-monde_ (the Paris Pimlico, or St. John’s Wood).
BREDOUILLE, _f._ (popular), chevalier de la ----, _one who goes out shooting on Sundays in the purlieus of Paris_. From revenir bredouille, _to return with an empty bag_.
BRELOQUE, _f._ (popular), _a clock_. Properly _watch trinket_.
BRÈME, _m. and f._ (popular), _vendor of countermarks at the door of theatres_. Une ----, _f._ (thieves’), _playing card_, “flat,” or “broad” (brème is a flat fish, _the bream_). Une ---- de pacquelins, _geographical map_. Maquiller les brèmes, _to handle cards, to play at cards_, “to fake broads;” _to mark cards in certain ways, to construct them on a cheating principle_, “to stock briefs.” Maquilleur de brèmes, _card-sharper_, or “broadsman,” _generally one whose spécialité is the three-card trick_.
Le perdant, blème, crispe ses poings. Les compères s’approchent du maquilleur de brèmes (tripoteur de cartes), qui s’est relevé, avec un éclair mauvais dans ses yeux ternes ... il se recule et siffle. A ce signal arrive un gosse, en courant, qui crie d’une voix aiguë: Pet! v’là la rousse! Décanillons!--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_.
(Prostitutes’) Une brème, _card delivered by the police to registered prostitutes_. Fille en ----, _registered prostitute_.
BRÊMEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _card player_, “broad faker.”
BRÊMIER, _m._ (thieves’), _manufacturer of playing cards_.
BRÉSILIEN, _m._ (popular), _wealthy, generous man_, “rag-splawger.”
BRICABRACOLOGIE, _art of dealing in or collecting bric-à-brac or knick-knacks_.
BRICHETON, _m._ (popular), _bread_; ---- d’attaque, _four-pound loaf_.
BRICOLE, _f._ (popular), _small, odd jobs that only procure scanty profits_. Properly _a shoulder-strap used by costermongers to draw their barrows_.