‖ Chedreux Obs.
[from surname of a fashionable perruquier late in 17th c.]
A peruke or wig of a particular fashion.
| 1678 Otway Friendship in F. 57 What a Bush of Bryars and Thorns is here? The Main of my Lady Squeamish's Shock is a Chedreux to it. 1682 Oldham Juvenal's 3rd Sat. (1854) 191 Their Chedreux perruques, and those vanities. [1689 Shadwell Bury Fair i. ii, (Frenchman says) If dat foole Chedreux make de peruque like me, I vil be hangd.] 1745 W. G. (aged 87) Let. in Gent. Mag. 99 I remember plain John Dryden..in one uniform clothing of Norwich drugget. I have ate tarts with him and Madam Reeve at the Mulberry Garden, when our author advanced to a sword and Chedreux wig. |