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Brewer's: Pigtails
(The). 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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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