Usage examples (33)

• They moved into the dining room, where Corinne paused before an oil portrait of a periwigged gentleman in a ruffled neck cloth.
• Baronet descended in state, leaning upon the arm of the Apollo in plush and powder, who closed the shutters of the great coach, and mounted by the side of the coachman, laced...
• On the wall behind the judge's bench are conventional portraits, which belong to the judge himself, of the founding fathers, as well as one of Abraham Lincoln and three of...
• Exhaling good old inland American Anglophobia, he mocks "those periwigged lords of London, who wore their laces and took their snuff and kept their mistresses" and lent...