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toit à porc, shelter for pigs

4. trénis (more correctly trénitz), a contredance, formerly the fourth figure in a quadrille, named for a famous Viennese dancer.

Page 24. — 1. Bichette, used hère as name of a mare.

Page 26. — 1. fanal, slang for stomach, Properly "lamp." 2. habit de vinaigre, coat that seemed too tight or too thin for the season.

Page 32. — 1. flambés, used up. Colloquial.

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