Queintise, O. E. A dress curiously cut or ornamented. (See Cointoise.)
Querpo (for Cuerpo). Partly undressed.
Querpo-hood. A hood worn by the Puritans. (P.)
“No face of mine shall by my friends be viewed
In Quaker’s pinner, or in querpo-hood.”
(Archæologia, vol. xxvii.)
Queshews, O. E. Cuisses; armour for the thighs.
Queue, Fr. A support for a lance. It was a large piece of iron screwed to the back of the breastplate, curved downward to hold down the end of the lance.
Queue Fourchée, Her. Having a double tail, or two tails.
Quichuas. Remarkable specimens of pottery, from this Peruvian coast province, doubtless of remote antiquity, resemble in their freedom from conventionality and successful imitation of natural forms all primitive Egyptian and other sculpture. Jacquemart describes the vase of the illustration (on page [214]) as the chef-d’œuvre of American ceramics; and, from the close resemblance of the features of the figure represented to certain groups of prisoners on the Egyptian bas-reliefs, as well as to the ethnic type of the ancient Japanese kings, makes important deductions with reference to the dispersion of mankind, and the commerce of the old and new worlds in prehistoric times.