peruke

Someone'll have to take his place, hurry up and get a fresh peruke too.

Rile would trade peruke for cap when he pronounced sentence of death.

The royal Individual, in round hat and peruke, sits astonished; but right or wrong, there is no remedy.

The royal Individual in round hat and peruke, he is Valet, for the time being.

"I do wonder what lies beneath that white peruke," the black domino continued in the same cold officious voice.

Ned Gowan's grey peruke inclined itself in the most precise of formal bows.

There again was Castanet, a partisan leader in a voluminous peruke and with a taste for controversial divinity.

There are several in the show, from Cleopatra-style cascades of braided fiber to a tidy mud-pellet peruke.

'And that ghastly peruke.

She indicated a Cavalier whose dashing peruke and feathered hat contrasted oddly with his square, stolid face.

His eyes were bright, and save a slight disarrangement of his peruke, he gave no hint of exertion or fatigue.

Anthony Valera looked and dressed like a suave Spanish grandee; he was black and silver, including ribboned peruke.

Simmons was born in Canterbury, the son of William Simmons, a 'Peruke' or wig maker in the city.

With face shrivelled to nothing; with 'huge peruke a la Louis Quatorze, which leaves only two eyes "visible" glittering like carbuncles,' the old man is here.

In spite of the exertions of the day, his neat coat showed no signs of dust, and his old-fashioned peruke sat squarely on his head.

He began to make pen and ink drawings of bird like characters (who closely resembled him physically) dressed in the peruke and trousers of the 18th century.

Mopping his brow with a soft hand, he noticed his bald pate, then quickly pulled a small peruke from his pocket and slipped it onto his scalp.

The Curate in surplice and stole; Justice in its peruke; Marechausee sabre in hand, guarding the place, till the bagpipes can begin.

In a few minutes I was dressed in Klep's pale blue brocade coat and breeches, white stockings, buckle shoes and fluorescent white peruke.

And this Grosse- Tete in round hat and peruke, which, looking rearward, pokes itself out from time to time, methinks there are features in it--?

He goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke, and with nonchalance and the air of a referee, distributes souls.

The wigs include a "great pink-powdered alp of hair" and George's own low-budget peruke, which, when subjected to rainstorms, begins "to smell like the beast from whose tail it had been cultivated."

I once followed a rude fellow into a chamber, where the poor madam, for haste, and troubled, snatch'd at her peruke to cover her baldness; and put it on the wrong way.

(He was one of the first Englishmen to adopt the French custom of wearing a peruke, which explains why in his surviving portraits he always has on an enormous and weighty-looking hairpiece.)

He was resplendent in a scarlet robe and sash, and a horsehair wig, called a "peruke," Ryan had been told, that fell to his narrow shoulders and clearly looked like something from another age.