periwig
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Men in the 17th century wore the "periwig" - long, voluminous artificial curls - to denote wealth and high social status.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
For Every Day's A Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig, but agreed that his music was well worth unearthing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be noticed that, for ceremony, the periwig gave place to the tie-wig, or, in some few cases, to natural hair curled and powdered.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
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