London, England: Thames and Hudson, 2002. Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years. Throughout the eighteenth century, pigtails of all sorts were covered in flour or another white powder to create the white hair so popular during the century. The Ramillies wig featured a long pigtail tied with a black tie at the top and another at the bottom of the pigtail. The Ramillies wig, a version of the campaign wig that became a popular style among soldiers throughout theĬentury, was named after a British victory over the French in 1706 during the War of Spanish Succession (1701 –14). Although the first military pigtails were fashioned from the wearers' own hair, later styles were made of wigs, called campaign wigs. After queue-cutting had become something of a mania, the North-China Herald observed that, while the act might not 'mark an epoch,' it was 'inevitable that a queueless China should mean a new China. Commonly pigtails hung loose from a black ribbon knotted at the back of the head, but they could also be braided, smeared with tar, or completely hidden beneath a tightly wrapped ribbon or fabric pouch. Thus, the removal of the 'queue' or 'pigtail' became one of the better-known symbols of the fall of imperial rule, modernization and political change. verb (used with or without object), queued, queu·ing. Pigtails could be styled in many different ways. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action. the Manchus issued an edict called The Order of the Queue that ordered all Chinese males to shave their hair back from their foreheads every 10 days and braid the back into a. Soldiers developed a unique style that gave them the appearance of long, flowing, curly hair, but allowed them to be active. Pigtails could be styled in many different ways. Perhaps the most striking was China’s Battle of the Pigtail, which my father, Chester, and his brother Nelius were directly involved in as youngsters. a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, jobs, or the like, waiting for action. Regimental tails were ordered be nine inches long.The fashion of wearing large, curled wigs in the eighteenth century was impractical for some men. a file or line, especially of people waiting their turn. From the French, which signifies tail an appendage that every British soldier is directed to wear in lieu of a club. in sense of "braid of hair hanging down behind" (attested by 1748), originally part of the wig, in later 18c. In time, we shall see it perfected, by practice to the rank almost of an art and the art, or quasi-art, of standing in tail become one of the characteristics of the Parisian People, distinguishing them from all other Peoples whatsoever. On learning of the fall of Ying he is said to have drowned himself in the Miluo River. If we look now at Paris one thing is too evident: that the Baker's shops have got their Queues, or Tails their long strings of purchasers arranged in tail, so that the first come be the first served,-were the shop once open! This waiting in tail, not seen since the early days of July, again makes its appearance in August. Queue (pigtail) of which form part of the Chuci (The Songs of Chu). English and American military dictionaries). 1500) perhaps led to the extended sense of "line of people, etc." (1837), but this use in English is perhaps directly from French ( queue à queue, "one after another" appears in early 19c. A metaphoric extension to "line of dancers" (c. English, "tail of a beast," especially in heraldry. Late 15c., "band attached to a letter with seals dangling on the free end," from French queue "a tail," from Old French cue, coe, queue, "tail" (12c., also "penis"), from Latin coda (dialectal variant or alternative form of cauda) "tail" (see coda, and compare cue (n.2)).Īlso in literal use in 16c.
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