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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Imperial

(An). A tuft of hair on the chin, all the rest of the beard and all the whiskers being shaved off. So called from the Emperor Napoleon III., who set the fashion.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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