#18TH CENTURY MILITARY QUEUE HAIR PLUS#

In the description of 1762, the words ''moustache'' (mustache) and ''autrefois'' (long ago) are gone. Long ago, we were wearing cadenettes'' (edition of 1694) Long braid, mustache that falls lower than the remaining hair. Autrefois, on portoit des cadenettes'' (édition de 1694)

#18TH CENTURY MILITARY QUEUE HAIR PLUS#

Longue tresse, moustache qui tombe plus bas que le reste des cheveux. The ''Académie Française'' dictionaries have almost identical definitions between the edition of 16. The ''cadenette'' fashion has been there for a long time'' Long mustache, bunch of hair that long time ago we used to have long on the left side when all others were short. La mode de cadenettes a été fort longtemps en vogue'' Grande moustache, poignée de cheveux qu'on laissait croitre autrefois du côté gauche tandis qu'on tenait les autres courts. Into the Dictionnaire de Furetières de 1690 (found on Gallica), this is the definition: ''Cadenette'' is missing into the Richelet's Dictionnary of 1680. To have more information about the word, we looked for it in 17th and 18th century dictionaries for descriptions. de Garsault, this is a wig with two ''cadenettes'': The ''catogan'' is well described and explained, the ''bourse'' has visual and lexical descriptions in engravings and dictionaries, the ''cadenette'' remained a mystery to me.įor M. Men's fashion natural hairstyles include ''bourses'' (hairbag), ''cadenettes'' and ''cadogan''.

de Garsault, ''cadenettes'' are mentioned describing wig hairstyles and natural hairstyles. When we were preparing our first conference about 18th century men's hairstyles, this word was a source of interrogation : what is ''la cadenette''? This is a French word and I do not know the English equivalent. This article is a little like my article about the ''pet-en-l'air'', it is about a word that has many unclear definitions: ''la cadenette''.

18th century military queue hair