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Definition of Periwigs

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 Periwigs from wikipedia

- 1790s which was affected by the French Revolution (1789–1799). Perukes or periwigs for men were introduced into the English-speaking world with other French...
- 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...
- 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...
- worn by Irish nationalists who were opposed to the wearing of powdered periwigs closely ****ociated with members of the Protestant Ascendancy. They were...
- looked less attractive (which earned this epoch the disdainful epithet "periwig era" in the Dutch Orangist historiography of the 19th century), it still...
- a long decline and now disappeared among the upper classes. Perukes or periwigs for men were introduced into the English-speaking world with other French...
- killed themselves and their children. In March 1945, as part of Operation Periwig, the British printed a German-language black propaganda postcard, supposedly...
- The Inspectors of the Collegium Medi**** in Amsterdam, by Cornelis Troost, 1724. This period is known as the "Periwig Era"....
- dandies and was ****ociated with foppish Italian fashions of dress and periwigs, as in the eighteenth-century British song "Yankee Doodle". As is the case...