How To Use Peruke In A Sentence
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Italian and French operas and academies prevailed, and pastoral poetry, in which the god of Love was represented wearing an immense allonge peruke, and the coquettish immorality of the courts was glowingly described in Arcadian scenes of delight, was cultivated.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
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His eyes were bright, and save a slight disarrangement of his peruke, he gave no hint of exertion or fatigue.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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We would have thought it vile poltroonery and macaronism to have worn wigs -- to say nothing of powder -- unless, indeed, the peruke was a true Malplaquet club or Dettingen scratch.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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He shone his torch into the white bower where Dr Barbara rested on her sweat-swollen pillow, blonde hair caked to a damp peruke.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Lean and well-built, far advanced in the thirties, a very large nose, and altogether marked features: he wore from morning till night a scratch which might well have been called a peruke, but dressed himself very neatly, and never went out but with his sword by his side, and his hat under his arm.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
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It seemed to Odo as he gazed on the long line of faces as though their owners had entered one by one into a narrowing defile, where the sun rose later and set earlier on each successive traveller; and in every countenance, from that of the first Duke to that of his own peruked and cuirassed grandfather, he discerned the same symptom of decadency: that duality of will which, in a delicately-tempered race, is the fatal fruit of an undisturbed pre-eminence.
The Valley of Decision
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Still in service today, this ‘bar wig’ is worn by barristers or advocates and is distinct from the plain ‘tye’ or ‘bench wig’ with no curls, worn by judges in court, and the full-bottomed peruke, which is reserved for ceremonial occasions.
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If dat foole Chedreux make de peruke like me, I vil be hanga.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
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The peruke still represented real hair and the ‘black patch’ had its model in the natural mole.
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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
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On the margin there stood: ex-ambassador, and a note which we also copy: “In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton.”
Les Miserables
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English capitals, their stiff flourishes, their quaint abbreviations, we should scarcely have been startled to see a peruked head bend above them and a hand with noisy quill go tracing along the lines of those long-ago "Whereases" and "Be it knowns.
Virginia: the Old Dominion
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He pointed towards a gentleman in a shining brown peruke.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a
Michael
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What judge, peruked by day, could so contain his learned locks?
Journeys to Bagdad
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First of all, Jon Stewart abandons his comic genius to put on metaphorical judicial robes and a peruke.
Daniel Menaker: Discomfort Zone
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Ned Gowan's grey peruke inclined itself in the most precise of formal bows.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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The audience can clearly see that he is indeed a young boy in a peruke.
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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
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Long-suffering servants were ordered about in French and wore perukes to wait on his guests.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His eyes were bright, and save a slight disarrangement of his peruke, he gave no hint of exertion or fatigue.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle.
Pioneers of Science
