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 may be seen from the description of her dress, which follows. The slang word sa$2$ 'r, not generally known even among Pekinese, means dress, fashion, toilette. As no written character exists to represent this sound and this meaning, I have used for it the character sa 撒 which being originally in the first tone, here ought to be read in the second. Wanting to find a character for the word, it could be formed this combination 𧝠 to be read sa$2$ 'r. &mdash; One of the phrases commonly heard is this 你有撒兒沒撒兒 ni$3$ iou$3$ sa$2$ 'r, mei$2$ sa$2$ 'r? &mdash; meaning "have you got a good dress or not? " 洋縐 yang$2$ chou$4$, crape imported by foreigners. 汗褟兒 han$4$ t'a$1$ 'r, sort of cloth under-dress or shirt worn by Chinese in contact with the skin. European shirts are mostly styled 汗衫 han$4$ shan$1$. 牛糞 niu$2$fen$4$ "ox-dung", name for a sort of head dress, more decently called 圓頭 yüan$2$ t'ou$2$ "round head". p'ai$3$, character not noted in the dictionaries but mentioned by Sir T. Wade in his Tone exercises. It means "to let onself down, to lie down, and-then to be seated, placed". Here it is used as a noun, and is referred to the chignon placed on the girl's head. 晚香玉 uan$3$ hsiang$1$ yü$4$, the gem which smells in the evening, the tuberosa (lat. ). 五分底兒 u$3$-fen$1$ ti$3$ 'r, thick five fen. The fen is the tenth part of the ts'un, an inch. The shoe sole is called 底兒 ti$3$ 'r, or 底子 ti$3$ tzu, and may be as thick as five or six inches. That sort of heel which is placed sometimes in the center of the sole in