Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A wig, especially a peruke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. wig
- v. To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.
- transitive v. To dress with a periwig, or with false hair.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dress with a periwig; hence, to put a head-dress upon; cover or dress the head of.
- n. Same as peruke.
- n. In zoology, a periwinkle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
Etymologies
Examples
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"And the ghost also wears his periwig, which is so ridiculous that any self-respecting spectre would refuse to copy it."
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Need I say that the periwig is a triumph of the friseur's art? "
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I also hope that it will induce him to adopt French fashions and disregard the periwig.
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His wife, Anne, who had stopped in to leave some mended costumes and re-curl his periwig he is forever unravelling, dropped a kiss on his forehead.
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Hart, a man hung on an enormous frame, with thickly waved brown hair although he often wears a periwig, has a booming voice and says he is the great nephew of Shakespeare—but then everybody says that.
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“Humph,” grumbled Hart non-committally, tugging at his great periwig—new and too mousy for his rosy colouring and ill fitting to boot.
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He was wearing the most astonishing canary-yellow hat, complete with ostrich plumes and small feathers and velvet ribbons and gold buttons plus an enormous blond periwig with ringlets almost reaching his waist.
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Grimsley is probably the strongest vocally in the cast and he is menacing despite having to perform such gestures as removing a periwig in preparation for a planned ravishing.
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I suppose I could weave my own periwig out of the thousands of strands I've recovered over the last few years.
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This sounds a lot more like Sammy Glick in a periwig than good old George.
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