argot
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From Washington Post
Ardent biographers of the composer Handel were surprised to learn that their idol was such a close student of Parisian slang that he had written an authoritative work on the subject: Handel's L' Argot.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have entered the Kingdom of Argot, without being an argotier; you have violated the privileges of our city.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
In Argot the train is le roulant Vif, the Rattler.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
Argot, �r′go, or �r′got, n. slang, originally that of thieves and vagabonds: cant.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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