On Aug 10, 2010, at 6:53 AM, Bob W wrote: > >> Apache' is a historical dance form, reenacting a pimp beating up his whore >> outside the Apache' nightclub in Paris. At DHBF on Saturday two of the >> instructors performed one of these dances. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4878417223/ >> > > "apache" was a word the French used to describe a low-grade street hoodlum > in the early 20th century. The word for pimp is maquereau (mackerel!), but I > suppose pimps are also apaches. > > I don't know why you've put an apostrophe after it each time - it doesn't > have an accent on the e in French. > > <http://www.languefrancaise.net/Argot/Apaches >
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