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periwig

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛɹɪwɪɡ/

noun

Etymology: Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.

  1. A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.

    “O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]”

    “Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.”

verb

Etymology: Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.

  1. To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.

    “Discord periwigg'd with snakes”