bilbol-tree

Updated: May 25, 2025

This lasted six months or more; first adopted by the aristocracy, then by the common people, and by the time the latter had it well in hand the bon ton had cast it aside and were trying something else. A close study of this mad dressing shows that there is always a "hump." At one time it went all around; later appeared only behind, like an excrescence on a bilbol-tree.

- As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home