peruke
Example Sentences
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A peruke was made of long hair, often with curls on the sides, and was sometimes drawn back on the nape of the neck.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
The leading man, Charles Macklin, decided to pick a fight about a peruke with his fellow actor, Thomas Hallam.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
A year later he was wearing a barrister's white peruke in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke.
From Time Magazine Archive
I didn’t know what a peruke was, and I didn’t want to ask.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
