Chedreux

I should not have troubled myself thus far with French poets, but that I find our Chedreux critics wholly form their judgments by them.

Preface 1909

Only that one word, with a sorrowful shake of the graceful head, covered with feathery ringlets in the dainty fashion of that day, so becoming in youth, so inappropriate to advancing years, when the rich profusion of curls came straight from Chedreux, or some of his imitators, and baldness was hidden by the spoils of the dead.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

French poets, but that I find our _Chedreux_ [2] critics wholly form their judgments by them.

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It appears from the letter of the literary veteran in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1745, that our author, as he advanced in reputation, assumed the fashionable _Chedreux_ periwig.

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_Chedreux_ was the name of the fashionable periwigs of the day, and appears to have been derived from their maker.

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I should not have troubled myself thus far with French poets, but that I find our Chedreux critics wholly form their judgments by them.

All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy John Dryden 1665

If dat foole Chedreux make de peruke like me, I vil be hanga. "

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