Those M&D words

[Thomas Eckhardt]

As it is not in the OED, I assume "Queue-Tie" is Pynchon's invention. It 
seems to be a combination of "A knot of hair; a pigtail; also short for 
tie-wig." (a definition of "tie" marked as obsolete) and "A long plait 
of hair worn hanging down behind, from the head or from a wig; a 
pig-tail." (one of the meanings of "queue").

Thomas

> Anybody knows the exact definition of 'Queue-Tie' ?
>
> "Fr. Christopher Maire, far from pallid, wearing no black beyond his 
> Queue-Tie, neither wiry nor unnaturally fit, in Manner as free of the 
> suave as of the pinguid, seems scarcely any Englishman�s idea of a 
> Jesuit."
>
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