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How to use periwig in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word periwig? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead.
The periwig, adopted from French fashion after the Restoration, not only concealed baldness or reduced head-lice but was worn to enhance dignity.
How many of today's children know what a periwig is, let alone a waistcoat made of paduasoy?
The front door opened and Herr von Rogoff emerged, dressed in a black coat and a stiff gray periwig that put me in mind of a portrait of a great-grandfather I had once seen.
His periwig was struck off, and the whole room filled with pulvilio.
Hidden within the curls of Buchinger's periwig are seven complete Psalms and the Lord's Prayer.
For the past four seasons the symbol for unreliability – a periwig squiggle – has accompanied their annual essays on the classy but enigmatic Tidal Bay.
Here is nothing to be seen but a verdingale, yellow ruffe, and periwig.
The true Preux des Dames, went out with the full periwig, stap my vitals!
I wonder shall History ever pull off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden? Shall we see something of France and England besides Versailles and Windsor?
Examples from Classical Literature
When she sees her Salibrand so unmodiously accoutred, she will jeer him out of his periwig, and render him an Adamite cap-a-pie.
I think a modern in an antique dress, as just an object of ridicule, as a Hercules or Marius with a periwig and chapeau bras.
I think a modern in an antique dress as just an object of ridicule as a Hercules or Marius with a periwig and a chapeau bras.
He looked him over from the soles of his riding-boots to the crown of his periwig.
We looked high and low, on the seats and beneath them, but not a sign of the periwig was there.
The colour of his hair could not be discovered, as, according to the fashion, he wore a periwig.
His great black periwig was as sedulously curled as any at Whitehall.
Come, come, it would be but a bald world, but that it weares a periwig.
The periwig first appears in history as the headgear of a fool.
Belay the binnacle and part the ship's periwig abaft the main-mast!
Ti wears a periwig of a different kind from that of 204Ra-nefer.
The shaved Mohammedans of our day replace the periwig with the turban.
He has his shoes rubbed and his periwig powdered at the barber's as you go into the Rose.
He wears an immense periwig, flowing down over his shoulders.
Although he seemed, judging from the mud he had picked up on the way, to have come from London, his horse was as smooth and cool as his own iron-grey periwig and pigtail.
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