The Chinese; so called because the Tartar tonsure and braided queue are very general.
“We laid away telling one another of the pigtails till we both dropped off to sleep.”—Tales about the Chinese.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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