ProphetesAI is thinking...
peruke
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
peruke
▪ I. peruke, n. (pəˈruːk) Forms: 6–7 perruke, 6–9 perruque, 7 perruck, -ucke, perru'ke, perrucq; 6 perug, 7 perucke, 6– peruke, peruque. See also other early forms under periwig. [a. F. perruque (end of 15th c., in Diez and Littré), ad. It. perruca or parrucca, of obscure origin. Cf. Romanian parócę...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Johann Heinrich Schulz
For health reasons he refused to wear a peruke at the pulpit during sermons, which earned him the nickname "Zopfschulze" (Pigtail Schulz).
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
peruke-maker
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 Ch...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
John Hughes (poet)
describes a picture of himself as a young man about town wearing "a well trimmed blue suit, with scarlet stockings rolled above the knee, a large white peruke
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
peruked
peˈruked, a. [f. peruke n. + -ed2.] Wearing a peruke, having a peruke on.1632 Massinger Maid of Hon. i. ii, He has been all this morning In practice with a peruked gentleman-usher. 1856 Kaye Sir J. Malcolm I. xiii. 343 Lord Lake in full uniform..powderd and peruqued. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vi. vi. ...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Why Did People Wear Powdered Wigs? - Mental Floss
Apr 4, 2023French citizens ousted the peruke during the Revolution, and Brits stopped wearing wigs after William Pitt levied a tax on hair powder in 1795. Short, natural hair became the new craze, and it ...
www.mentalfloss.com
William Devaynes
He was the fifth of six children baptised there for Huguenot peruke maker John Devaynes and his wife Mary, only surviving child of London's City Remembrancer
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
peroke
† peroke Obs. rare—1. [perh. a variant of peruke, which, as also the It. perrucco, orig. meant ‘hair of the head’, ‘long locks’, ‘shock of hair’.] app. The floss silk of a cocoon.1540 Treas. Poore Men 7 b, Rawe sylke & namely of the Peroke of the sylke worme.
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
pirwike
† pirwike, -wycke obs. ff. peruke, periwig.1538 Elyot, Galerus,..a pirwike. 1552 Huloet, Pirwycke, galerus.
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
James Simmons (1741–1807)
Biography
Simmons was born in Canterbury, the son of William Simmons, a 'Peruke' or wig maker in the city.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
perruquier
‖ perruquier (pɛrykje) Also 8 peruquier; rarely anglicized as perukier, q.v. [Fr., f. perruque peruke.] One who makes, dresses, or deals in perukes; a wig-maker.1753 Foote Eng. in Paris i. i, All the fraternity of men makers,..taylors, perruquiers, hatters, hosiers. 1837 Thackeray Ravenswing ii, The...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
William Gooch (astronomer)
Gooch's father was barber and peruke maker to the gentry of Brockdish, church warden and also fulfilled the role of village constable for a short time.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Life
Hamilton was born in Crow Street, in Dublin, Ireland, in 1740, the son of a peruke maker.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Chedreux
‖ 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 Chedr...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai