Meaning of Periwig | Babel Free

Definitions

A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[T]he sun Grown stale, is to so low a value run⟳, That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires Serve⟳ but for ladies' periwigs and tyres In lovers' sonnets […]”

“The floods in icie fetters bound. Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig Wears his snowie Periwig, And every bough his snowy beard.”

“From her own⟳ Head, Megwra takes A Perriwig of twisted Snakes; Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd, Like⟳ Toupets of this upper World […]”

“[O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face⟳.”

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