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
He would talk nothing but French, protesting that he had almost forgotten his native tongue, and his French was the language of Larchey's Dictionary of Argot, in which nothing is called by its right name.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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
The address on the parcel was "Madame Argot," I was informed, but I must get myself certified to before I could receive it.
From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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