They moved into the dining room, where Corinne paused before an oil portrait of a periwigged gentleman in a ruffled neck cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

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 and periwigged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

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 periwigged English jurists.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Trial of Bobby Seale] Reference

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 their own names to Bedford, Halifax, Pelham and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Long Way From Dullsville] Reference

Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern British Poetry] Reference

His plain suit certainly was a relief to the eye, wearied with periwigged sages and bejewelled sinners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference

A courtly mob had got thither upon the same errand, daubed over with lace and most notably be-periwigged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

Stevenson, and although I may not be original, I hope sometime to outgrow my artificial, periwigged compositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life] Reference

In the years when she was growing out of childhood, her style lost its early simplicity and became stiff and, as she says, "periwigged.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life]

Unreal and monstrous art this, and fit only for such periwigged pomposities as the nobility of France at that time, but not at all fit for you or me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanies] Reference

'I hired this off of my Lord Marshalton,' Zigler explained, while they helped us out of our coats under the severe eyes of ruffed and periwigged ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diversity of Creatures] Reference

"There is no way to become original, except to be born so," says Stevenson, and although I may not be original, I hope sometime to outgrow my artificial, periwigged compositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life]

In the hair-dressing scenes we hear the gossip of the periwigged barber; in the dressmaking scenes, the chatter of the maid; in the dancing-school, the pleasant music of the violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition] Reference

A periwigged footman stood behind each of their chairs like a guardian statue which only came to life in the act of forestalling any trivial need and returned immediately afterwards to immobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saint in Action]

He was periwigged and dressed as fine as his master, and, on my being civil to him, talked much of himself and of divers taverns in the city where the dinners were either vastly good or vastly ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

Here they rested, -- the Atherlys of centuries; recumbent in armor or priestly robes, upright in busts that were periwigged or hidden in long curls, above the marble record of their deeds and virtues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference

Its ugly and spiteful little din (heard now for the first time, perhaps, since Hepzibah's periwigged predecessor had retired from trade) at once set every nerve of her body in responsive and tumultuous vibration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference

All the people whose portraits are hanging up, beruffled, dignified, calm, and periwigged, on the old walls of Edgeworthstown certainly had extraordinarily strong impressions, and gave eloquent expression to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Rackrent] Reference

In those days there must have been a good many fine solidly built and well decorated mansions in Dublin, of a type not unlike that of the ample rather stately and periwigged houses, all British brick without, and all Santo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

Perhaps staring at Smith's periwigged pomposity and a wee slogan of capitalist efficiency ( "The division of labour in pin manufacturing …") will help us through the recession better than looking at Elgar and nostalgically dreaming of the Malverns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The carriage of Sir Brian Newcome now drove up, from which the 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 and periwigged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

But the conclusion of the preface exemplifies the whimsicality even of the writer, and points to the existence of a commodity in the fashion of wig-wearing which few who glory in "their own hair," and despise their periwigged forefathers, are likely to have thought of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

I sped along the wide, empty streets, across the sanded square, with hedges of sere lime trees, where a big, periwigged Roman Emperor of an Elector presides, making one think of the shouts of "Hurrah, lads, for America!" of the bought and sold Hessians of Schiller's "Cabal and Love.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life] Reference

Such a one we may suppose before us now; after lying neglected for generations, or since the time when it was bought by one of our periwigged ancestors from the maker, perhaps after a little haggling about the price, which most likely was one hundredth part of its commercial value at present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference

"Didn't you hear what that fat, periwigged man said about the law?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Zixi of Ix]

1823 Beethoven, who was to write a mass for the Emperor Francis, was recommended to adopt the style of this frilled and periwigged pedant!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Haydn]

(heard now for the first time, perhaps, since Hepzibah's periwigged predecessor had retired from trade) at once set every nerve of her body in responsive and tumultuous vibration.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

I marvel much what periwigged phrase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

With that dark periwigged phantom of Dean Swift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watchers of the Sky] Reference

Coquelicot-ribboned belles and periwigged beaux.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watchers of the Sky] Reference

Discord periwigged with snakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

A painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

A painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference