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Definition of Periwig

Periwig
Periwig Per"i*wig, n. [OE. perrwige, perwicke, corrupt. fr. F. perruque; cf. OD. peruyk, from French. See Peruke, and cf. Wig.] A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig. --Shak.
Periwig
Periwig Per"i*wig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perwigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Perwigging.] To dress with a periwig, or with false hair. --Swift.

Meaning of Periwig from wikipedia

- animal hair, or a synthetic imitation thereof. The word is short for "periwig". Wigs may be worn to disguise baldness, to alter the wearer's appearance...
- Operation Periwig was a secret service operation planned and carried out by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) from November 1944 onwards...
- Periwig Maker is a 1999 British-German short stop motion animation film. 15 minutes long, it is based on Daniel Defoe's novel A Journal of the Plague...
- Excipe John Periwig tied up to the tail of a dead pig. The meaning here is "The storm rose up and overturned the boat" and "Except for John Periwig", etc....
- The Five Orders of Periwigs (The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically) is a 1761 engraving by the...
- killed themselves and their children. In March 1945, as part of Operation Periwig, the British printed a German-language black propaganda postcard, supposedly...
- waist for both men and women. This period also marked the rise of the periwig as an essential item of men's fashion. The wide, high-waisted look of the...
- The Inspectors of the Collegium Medi**** in Amsterdam, by Cornelis Troost, 1724. This period is known as the "Periwig Era"....
- usually paired with a soft, turban-like cap worn in place of the formal periwig. An alternative style of banyan was cut like a coat, ****ed, with set-in...
- looked less attractive (which earned this epoch the disdainful epithet "periwig era" in the Dutch Orangist historiography of the 19th century), it still...