The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.

He was a natural linguist, and he kept notebooks, making a scientific study of the workers' slang or argot, until he could talk quite intelligibly.

A man who intermingled nameless argot with polysyllabic and technical terms, he would seem sometimes the veriest criminal, in speech, face, expression, everything; at other times the cultured and polished gentleman, and again, the philosopher and scientist.

In his article "Speech play, gender play, and the verbal artistry of queer argots" Rusty Barrett presents a comparative analysis of queer argots in different languages and language communities marked by non--normative gender.

El autor distingue entre los argots tradicionales o argots de los oficios, y el nuevo fenomeno de los argots contemporaneos o sociologicos.

showcases the argots of the police, adolescents, and night stalkers of Auxerre, France.

le bon francais le francais familier le francais regional le francais populaire les patois les argots Given the artificial nature of linguistic norms, it is not at all surprising that disagreements occur between lexicographers concerning the particular style-label (fam., pop., vulg., or arg.) to be allotted to particular non-standard items.

The original French-Creole compound, subdivided by various dialects and argots, was complex enough.

The argots of sports, jazz, business, politics, or any specialized groups abound in figurative language.