peˈruke-ˌmaker
A wig-maker.
| a 1697 Aubrey Lives, Gregory (1898) I. 274 Gregorie, famous peruq-maker, buryed at St. Clement Danes church. 1753 Hogarth Anal. Beauty vi. 31 A Roman general, dress'd by a modern tailor and peruke-maker for tragedy is a comic figure. 1817 tr. Bombet's Haydn & Mozart 225 Chance threw in his way a peruke-maker. 1905 T. Auden Shrewsbury viii. 201 Brought up at Manchester as a barber and peruke-maker, he adopted the Jacobite principles. 1966 J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 111/2 s.v. Peruke ‘Riot’, As the distressed peruke-makers marched through the streets it was seen that most of them were without wigs themselves. |