Note 3 — THE HISTORY OF CANT, OR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS.
Reading edition
From Roter, beggar, vagabond, and wälsch, foreign. See Dictionary of Gipsy language in Pott’s Zigeuner in Europa und Asien, vol. ii., Halle, 1844. The Italian cant is called Fourbesque, and the Portuguese Calao. See Francisque-Michel, Dictionnaire d’Argot, Paris, 1856. [3]