[f. prec. sb.]

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  1.  trans. To put up (the hair) in a queue. Also with personal obj.

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1777.  W. Dalrymple, Trav. Sp. & Port., lxvi. They came not out … in the morning till their hair was queued.

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1820.  W. Irving, Sketch Bk., II. 385. Their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1872), II. IV. viii. 19. While they are combing and queuing him.

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1885.  E. Eggleston, in Century Mag., XXIX. 891/2. Some of them clubbed and some of them queued their hair.

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  2.  intr. To move in, in a line of people.

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1893.  Westm. Gaz., 31 Jan., 6/3. You queue in, hand your card to somebody, pass on.

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