periwig
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɛɹɪwɪɡ/
noun
Etymology: Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.
- 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.
- To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.
“Discord periwigg'd with snakes”