Get Free Checker

peruke

NOUN
  1. a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries

How To Use peruke In A Sentence

  • What judge, peruked by day, could so contain his learned locks? Journeys to Bagdad
  • His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle. Pioneers of Science
  • His eyes were bright, and save a slight disarrangement of his peruke, he gave no hint of exertion or fatigue. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Enormous allonge perukes and ruffles, the fontange (high headdress), hoops, and high heels, rendered the human race a caricature of itself. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
  • As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him. Audrey
  • He was, however, effeminately nice in the care of his person: the hair on his body he plucked out by the roots; and because he was somewhat bald, he wore a kind of peruke, so exactly fitted to his head, that nobody could have known it for such. De vita Caesarum
  • The said gentleman is a citizen of respectable appearance wearing a large full-bottom'd peruke, which though it has never been comb'd is as smooth as on the first day it was form'd. Letter 222
  • Enormous allonge perukes and ruffles, the fontange (high headdress), hoops, and high heels, rendered the human race a caricature of itself. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
  • Long-suffering servants were ordered about in French and wore perukes to wait on his guests.
  • Louisiana perique, ( 'peruke' proper,) that any old smoker would go into ecstasies over, fully equal, it is said to the genuine old-fashioned article, and that is saying a good deal. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
View all