peruke

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A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries

But now at thirty years my hair is grey— / (I wonder what it will be like at forty? / I thought of a peruke the other day—) .

or Periwig Menage ingeniously derives these words from the Latin pilus (“hair”) Thus, pilus, pelus, pelutus, peluticus, pelutica, peru'a, perruque The wigs are first mentioned in the 16th century; in the next century they became very large The fashion began to wane in the reign of George III Periwig is a corrupt form of the French word perruque
{i} wig, hairpiece, cap of hair worn on the head
wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries
To dress with a peruke
A wig; a periwig
wig, specifically one of a type popular from the 17th to the early 19th century
periwig
perukes
plural of peruke
peruke
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