A wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Examples for "peruke "
Examples for "peruke "
1 Jacques had taken off the mask and peruke of Goodman Cholera.
2 Another paid thirty louis d'or for the peruke of the king.
3 With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.
4 The old hussar gave a grim look to the emperor, and raised his peruke .
5 His Excellency shook his majestic peruke , and echoed the lady.
1 It went without saying that the Earl of Hollesley wore a periwig .
2 His great black periwig was as sedulously curled as any at Whitehall.
3 He wore a great brown periwig that set off his rosy face.
4 The composer picked up his staff from the floor and righted his periwig .
5 This is not so cumbrous as a periwig we have noticed.
6 He wore a dark and thick periwig that set off a grublike complexion.
7 They had even managed to scare up a periwig for him.
8 On Carew's necessary refusal he went mad, and tore Carew's new periwig off.
9 Next to him sits a gentleman in a black periwig .
10 A glance at your periwig tells me your fortunes have in no wise improved.
11 Then he understood it was nothing more than Leibniz's periwig .
12 Hind, acquitted with apologies, fetched from his lodging the disguise of periwig and beard.
13 I think the king's great periwig is most beautifully depicted.
14 He wears an immense periwig , flowing down over his shoulders.
15 I wonder shall History ever pull off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden?
16 Swords were worn by the gallants, and the periwig was seen everywhere in high society.
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