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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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pirwike
† pirwike, -wycke obs. ff. peruke, periwig.1538 Elyot, Galerus,..a pirwike. 1552 Huloet, Pirwycke, galerus. Oxford English Dictionary
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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
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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
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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
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perruque
perruck(e, -ruke, perruque see peruke. Oxford English Dictionary
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Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Life Hamilton was born in Crow Street, in Dublin, Ireland, in 1740, the son of a peruke maker. wikipedia.org
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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
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