A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck; a pigtail. ... Chinese pigtail ... queue programming; A first-in first-out data structure used to sequence objects. Objects are added to the tail of the queue ("enqueued") and taken off the head ("dequeued").
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The queue or cue is a hairstyle in which the hair is worn long and gathered up into a ponytail. It was worn traditionally by certain Native American groups, Indian Brahmins (see Kudumi) and the Ma...
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Chinese boys and men until the Revolution were fanous for wearing plaited pigtails. This was a fashion introduced by the Manchus in ... That is where "jumping the queue" originated from,the han chinese detested the manchu rule,so in 1911 when they all cut off their pigtails they jumped on them to show their displeasure;
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Hair queue revival: Qing dynasty braid... ... Hair queue revival Qing dynasty braid... ... I just have grown it long enough to wear in a french braid again after having it cut off short to remove all the old dyed hair, and it is now my natural multicolored hair.. chestnut brown, sable, mousy brown, reddish strawberry blond and...
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Opinion was divided as to whether the miscreants were men or spectres. ... Holcombe also seems to have been involved in an actual tail-cutting incident in 1877. He was woken early one morning by an American missionary, who reported that a Chinese man, sleeping in his chapel the previous night, had had his queue cut off.
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Now the Greeks sort of had Mullets by braiding their hair into long ringlets after they tucked it behind their ears. But, when the Persian War ended in the 5th Century, young Athenian men cut off their Mullets and consecrated them to the gods. ... The Chinese had a semi-Mullet. They wore their hair long and bound-up. But,
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1 Chinese queue ... Once firmly in power, Nurhaci commanded all men in the areas he had conquered to adopt the Manchu hairstyle. ... The Manchus were quite successful, as during the early years of the Republic of China, many Han Chinese were unwilling to to cut off their queues as they thought they would be beheaded if they did,
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Manchu men's hairstyle that consisted of a high shaved forehead and a long braid down the back; originally developed to keep long hair out of the face in battle. By Manchu decree issued by Dorgon in 1645, all Chinese men had to adopt the hairstyle upon risk of execution. ... Definitions for "Queue " Add To Word List...
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Still, there is good reason to believe that Chung had decided to stay- he had, after all, cut off his queue, the long braid that Chinese men were accustomed to wearing. Cutting it meant a significant loss of social status if he ever returned to China.
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Still, there is good reason to believe that Chung had decided to stay — he had, after all, cut off his queue, the long braid that Chinese men were accustomed to wearing. Cutting it meant a significant loss of social status if he ever returned to China.
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