![]() Regimental tails were ordered be nine inches long. From the French, which signifies tail an appendage that every British soldier is directed to wear in lieu of a club. The long braid became its essential feature, easily identified and, by the late 19th and 20th centuries, derided. in sense of "braid of hair hanging down behind" (attested by 1748), originally part of the wig, in later 18c. Eventually, both the Qing dynasty and the queue were established across China. 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. 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. to form in or be part of a line or file while waiting to be served, etc. verb intransitive Word forms: queued or queuing. a stored arrangement of computer data or programs, waiting to be processed. ![]() Queues, or Tails their long strings of purchasers arranged a line or file of persons, vehicles, etc. If we look now at Paris one thing is too evident: that the Baker's shops have got their 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. According to a scholar of art history and Asian studies, however, the social distancing function of the Chinese hats is rooted in an unfounded speculation. ![]() ![]() 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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