英语词汇“periwig”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

periwig

/ˈpɛrɪwɪɡ

noun archaic

1A wig.The small party was conspicuous enough to be identified by a group of German tourists outside Paris, so they took the precaution of buying periwigs to thicken their disguises....

He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead.

1.1A highly styled wig worn formerly as a fashionable headdress by both women and men and retained by judges and barristers as part of their professional dress.The periwig, adopted from French fashion after the Restoration, not only concealed baldness or reduced head-lice (since the natural hair was close-cropped or shaved) but was worn to enhance dignity....

Some seem silly now, like his campaign to rid the New World of periwigs.
During the Restoration its rooms saw many grand assemblies (at one, Samuel Pepys burnt his periwig on a candle).

Derivatives

periwigged

adjective ...

Several groups found themselves excluded from the American Dream of the white, periwigged, slaveholding intelligentsia of Enlightenment Virginia.

Origin

Early 16th century: alteration of peruke, with -wi- representing the French -u- sound.

单词	periwig
释义	periwig /ˈpɛrɪwɪɡ / noun archaic 1A wig.The small party was conspicuous enough to be identified by a group of German tourists outside Paris, so they took the precaution of buying periwigs to thicken their disguises.... He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead. 1.1A highly styled wig worn formerly as a fashionable headdress by both women and men and retained by judges and barristers as part of their professional dress.The periwig, adopted from French fashion after the Restoration, not only concealed baldness or reduced head-lice (since the natural hair was close-cropped or shaved) but was worn to enhance dignity.... Some seem silly now, like his campaign to rid the New World of periwigs. During the Restoration its rooms saw many grand assemblies (at one, Samuel Pepys burnt his periwig on a candle). Derivatives periwigged adjective ... Several groups found themselves excluded from the American Dream of the white, periwigged, slaveholding intelligentsia of Enlightenment Virginia. Origin Early 16th century: alteration of peruke, with -wi- representing the French -u- sound.
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