A wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
1 But in that age of periwigs this misfortune was of little importance.
2 She saw him scribbling upon curl-papers instead of attending to his periwigs .
3 My Cousin Tom and I wore our own hair, and no periwigs .
4 Of these, three were small periwigs worth but a pound apiece.
5 Look ye at them, with their white faces and their swords and periwigs !
6 In time there were no more swords, three-cornered hats, or periwigs in The Street.
7 Alas, all he could make out were a lot of blokes in white periwigs .
8 May, surveyor of the works, in long periwigs , as spectators of Christ healing the sick.
9 Good lord, but why did English men insist on wearing those hideous periwigs on their heads?
10 The Peers at a conference begin to pommel each other and to tear collars and periwigs .
11 He had heard too much talk of periwigs not to feel resolved to wear one himself.
12 We have directed attention to the large periwigs , and given a portrait of the Earl of Albemarle wearing one.
13 You must know, the ladies of Norfolk universally wear periwigs , and affirm that it is the fashion at London.
14 In the place of conical hats and muskets there were three-cornered hats and small-swords, and lace and snowy periwigs .
15 Embroidered garments of showy colors, enormous periwigs , gold-laced hats, and silver-hilted swords glided past him and dazzled his optics.
16 There were straws, I confess, in the hair of the older poets; the eighteenth-century men stuck straws in their periwigs .
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