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See also: perukę

English

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Etymology

From French perruque. Doublet of periwig.

Pronunciation

Noun

peruke (plural perukes)

  1. A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
    • 1762–1771, Horace Walpole, “Mr. JOHN SMITH”, in A Catalogue of Engravers, Who Have Been Born, or Resided in England; [], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV, or Engravers), London: [] Thomas Farmer [], →OCLC, page 105:
      To poſterity perhaps his prints vvill carry an idea of ſomething burleſque; perukes of outrageous length flovving over ſuits of armour compoſe vvonderfull habits.
    • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: [] Thomas Davison, [], →OCLC, canto I, stanza CCXIII, page 109:
      But now at thirty years my hair is gray— / (I wonder what it will be like at forty? / I thought of a peruke the other day) []
    • 1834, Robert Southey, “Ante-preface”, in The Doctor, &c., volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, →OCLC, pages 35–36:
      Let the long peruke succeed the godly cropt hair; the cravat, the ruff; []
    • 1979, J.G. Ballard, chapter 19, in The Unlimited Dream Company:
      Every chair was filled, the line of assistants working like conjurors at the bizarre hairstyles, a splendid confusion of feathers and flared perukes, wings of back-brushed hair, like the plumage of an aviary.
    • 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 135:
      With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.

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Finnish

Etymology

peru + -ke

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈperukeˣ/, [ˈpe̞ruk̟e̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -eruke
  • Syllabification(key): pe‧ru‧ke
  • Hyphenation(key): pe‧ru‧ke

Noun

peruke

  1. (fishing) wire trace, snood

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