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n. - A wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Usage examples (30)
  • His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle.
  • Excellency shook his majestic peruke, and echoed the lady.
  • If he who wears a peruke is more to be feared than he who wears none?
  • Ned Gowan's grey peruke inclined itself in the most precise of formal bows.
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