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单词 periwig
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Definition of periwig in English:

periwig

noun ˈpɛrɪwɪɡˈpɛrəˌwɪɡ
archaic
  • 1A wig.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead.
    • The small party was conspicuous enough to be identified by a group of German tourists outside Paris, so they took the precaution of buying periwigs to thicken their disguises.
    1. 1.1 A highly styled wig worn formerly as a fashionable headdress by both women and men and retained by judges and barristers as part of their professional dress.
      佩鲁基假发(原本是一种非常流行的男女都戴的假发,后来成为法官和律师职业装的一部分)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The periwig, adopted from French fashion after the Restoration, not only concealed baldness or reduced head-lice (since the natural hair was close-cropped or shaved) but was worn to enhance dignity.
      • During the Restoration its rooms saw many grand assemblies (at one, Samuel Pepys burnt his periwig on a candle).
      • The front door opened and Herr von Rogoff emerged, dressed in a black coat and a stiff gray periwig that put me in mind of a portrait of a great-grandfather I had once seen.
      • How many of today's children know what a periwig is, let alone a waistcoat made of paduasoy?
      • Some seem silly now, like his campaign to rid the New World of periwigs.

Derivatives

  • periwigged

  • adjective
    archaic
    • Several groups found themselves excluded from the American Dream of the white, periwigged, slaveholding intelligentsia of Enlightenment Virginia.

Origin

Early 16th century: alteration of peruke, with -wi- representing the French -u- sound.

Definition of periwig in US English:

periwig

nounˈpɛrəˌwɪɡˈperəˌwiɡ
archaic
  • 1

    archaic term for wig
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead.
    • The small party was conspicuous enough to be identified by a group of German tourists outside Paris, so they took the precaution of buying periwigs to thicken their disguises.
    1. 1.1 A highly styled wig worn formerly as a fashionable headdress by both women and men.
      佩鲁基假发(原本是一种非常流行的男女都戴的假发,后来成为法官和律师职业装的一部分)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • During the Restoration its rooms saw many grand assemblies (at one, Samuel Pepys burnt his periwig on a candle).
      • The periwig, adopted from French fashion after the Restoration, not only concealed baldness or reduced head-lice (since the natural hair was close-cropped or shaved) but was worn to enhance dignity.
      • Some seem silly now, like his campaign to rid the New World of periwigs.
      • The front door opened and Herr von Rogoff emerged, dressed in a black coat and a stiff gray periwig that put me in mind of a portrait of a great-grandfather I had once seen.
      • How many of today's children know what a periwig is, let alone a waistcoat made of paduasoy?

Origin

Early 16th century: alteration of peruke, with -wi- representing the French -u- sound.

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