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  • adjective wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries

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Examples

  • English capitals, their stiff flourishes, their quaint abbreviations, we should scarcely have been startled to see a peruked head bend above them and a hand with noisy quill go tracing along the lines of those long-ago "Whereases" and "Be it knowns."

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • What judge, peruked by day, could so contain his learned locks?

    Journeys to Bagdad 1906

  • Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a

    Michael 1903

  • It seemed to Odo as he gazed on the long line of faces as though their owners had entered one by one into a narrowing defile, where the sun rose later and set earlier on each successive traveller; and in every countenance, from that of the first Duke to that of his own peruked and cuirassed grandfather, he discerned the same symptom of decadency: that duality of will which, in a delicately-tempered race, is the fatal fruit of an undisturbed pre-eminence.

    The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

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