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peruke
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See also: perukę
English
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈɹuːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /pəˈɹuk/
- Rhymes: -uːk
- Hyphenation: per‧uke
Noun
peruke (plural perukes)
- 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
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peruke
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- “peruke”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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