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Brutus|ˈbruːtəs|
More fully Brutus Wig: a kind of wig. ‘The rough-cropped head then fashionable was called a Brutus by the French, after the great hero of antiquity whom they specially reverenced’. Fairholt (ed. Dillon) I. 408.
1798H. L. Piozzi Let. 27 Mar. (1914) 152, I wonder if the pretty Misses go in self coloured drawers..and Brutus Heads with you as they do here. 1804W. Irving Jrnls. & Notebks. (1969) I. 464 She caught hold of his hat & it came off with his brutus wig in it. 1807Southey Lett. from Eng. lxxi. 304 During one period of the French Revolution the Brutus head-dress was the mode. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 5 (Hoppe) He wore his hair with the curls arranged in a Brutus à la George the Fourth. 1857Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life, Janet's Repentance II. 189 Old Mr. Crewe the curate in a brown Brutus wig. |