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Definition of Perukes
1. peruke [n] - See also: peruke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perukes
Literary usage of Perukes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... young; men in perukes down to their breeches, wenches who wear high topknots
on their heads and never a smock on, painted whores in ..."
2. Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century by Christopher Wordsworth (1874)
"... to reprehend the growing practice of reading sermons; and of the clergy
wearing ' their hair and perukes of an unusual and unbecoming length. ..."
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