queue
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9.3
- noun
- /kjuː/
- Archaic
:
trenza
- Every morning, he combed and braided it with water to make his queue smooth and shining.
- a braided queue
Examples
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The Emperor had a shaved forehead and a rope-like braid of black hair down his back called a queue.
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N1: All Na'vis have a queue, which is a long braid of hair with pink tentacles.
Academic text (2010) -
He had his hair cut off and made into a queue, you know one of those long queues at the back of his neck.
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One of the Lascars holds him by the queue as he mounts the steps.
Blog text (22) -
Neytiri instructs Jake to connect his queue to the direhorse's antennae.
Academic text (2010) -
The man was smooth-shaven and darkly tanned; his jaw was thin, his nose a decisive point in a sharp-featured face. His hair was dark reddish-brown, pulled back in a neat braided queue.
Fiction book (1992) -
His thick, nearly blue-black hair was pulled back into a perfect queue, adding severity to a face that might otherwise be called beautiful.
Synonyms
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1.3
A hairstyle made by weaving three or more strands of hair together
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Queue for a braided hair also comes from the idea of a 'tail', because men in some Asian traditions wore a long braided hair that looked like a tail, much like a pigtail.