creves

Worn-out dukes and duchesses of the Faubourg Saint-Germain united in this enterprise of pious reaction with the frivolous youngsters, the petits creves, who haunt the purlieus of Notre Dame de Lorette.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

Then there were young men about town, flabby and without backbone, those who at that time used to be called _petits creves_, creatures worn out by dissipation, with stooping necks and drooping lids, incapable of standing erect or of articulating a single word perfectly.

The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868

See, I have smoked out your cigar; you may give me another, and add a dollar if you please, nous sommes creves ici de faim.

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

See, I have smoked out your cigar; you may give me another, and add a dollar if you please, nous sommes creves ici de faim.

The Bible in Spain 1712