He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead. |
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The periwig, adopted from French fashion after the Restoration, not only concealed baldness or reduced head-lice but was worn to enhance dignity. |
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How many of today's children know what a periwig is, let alone a waistcoat made of paduasoy? |
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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. |
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His periwig was struck off, and the whole room filled with pulvilio. |
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Hidden within the curls of Buchinger's periwig are seven complete Psalms and the Lord's Prayer. |
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For the past four seasons the symbol for unreliability – a periwig squiggle – has accompanied their annual essays on the classy but enigmatic Tidal Bay. |
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Here is nothing to be seen but a verdingale, yellow ruffe, and periwig. |
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The true Preux des Dames, went out with the full periwig, stap my vitals! |
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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? |
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