Special lingoes

Usage examples of argots.

The Anglic was rapid-fire, a language coequal in the Trains with Haisun and its argots.

Paris he knew as you and I know the palms of our hands, and he could converse with the precision of the nativeborn in any one of the city's several odd argots.

I was learning the island patois, quickly adjusting my knowledge as I came across the different argots that were used from one island to the next.

Others seemed references: oneiric nods to solid places, cities and towns and villages as real as New Crobuzon, with architecture and argots that Isaac had not seen or heard.

I myself had been in the army, mostly in Britain, for about seven years, but legionaries representing Rome despised native argots and expected all the conquered world to learn Latin.

I detest euphemisms and circumlocutions, and I am acquainted with all the verbs, including those of the argots, which mean to cause the death of.

Others seemed references: oneiric nods to solid places, cities and towns and villages as real as New Crobuzon, with archi­tecture and argots that Isaac had not seen or heard.

It is a little like the nonsense argots you used to make up for my amusement as a child, Babo.