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66 12 babouches: Turkish slippers, made of colored leather, without heels défroque: 'cast offs', properly, the possessions which a monk leaves behind at his death, then, by extension, what is abandoned disdainfully. 67 2 gros bleu: = bleu foncé, 'dark blue. In French the word may also mean the burn thus produced on the skin.
54 7 de province: 'provincial' All France outside of Paris is disdainfully designated by Parisians as la province. 54 9 chicards: 'dandies' debardeurs: men who unload wood, 'stevedores. Conventionalized dandy and stevedore costumes were made popular as early as the thirties by the clever cartoonist Gavarni and were seen at all masked balls.
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