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Examples
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Besides, I have four thousand pounds a year, for all I wear my own hair, Monsieur Periwig.
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Periwig, only go to shew himself to that adorable Babe, his Lady
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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German literature too, in the seventeenth century, stood under the sign manual of the Pigtail and Periwig; it was baroque, stilted, bombastic, affected, feeling and form alike were forced, not spontaneous.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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Periwig, her face as black as ink, led by two other quakers, and two other quakers followed.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Captain, or some smart Draper that, on the strength of a new Periwig and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Marylabonne cock to it, there bulged forth a mighty White Periwig of fleecy curls, for all the world like the coat of a Bologna Poodle Dog, and in the middle of his Wig there peeped out a little hatchet face with lantern jaws, and blue gills, and a pair of great black eyebrows, under which glistened a pair of inflamed eyes.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Fashion; as very well knowing that the Head. dress, or Periwig, that now prevails, and gives a Grace to their Portraitures at present, will make a very odd Figure, and perhaps look monstrous in the Eyes of Posterity.
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In the same Place I observed a young Fellow with a tolerable Periwig, had it not been covered with a Hat that was shaped in the Ramillie Cock.
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Periwig; and if the Fashion should introduce the thick kind of Wigs which were in Vogue some few Years ago, he promises to add two or three supernumerary Locks that shall contain all the
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The greatest Beau at our next Country Sessions was dressed in a most monstrous Flaxen Periwig, that was made in King William's
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