periwig

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The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Every Day's A Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig.

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Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig, but agreed that his music was well worth unearthing.

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As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings of Parliament, listen to debates, rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure.

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Probably he is on his way to the theatre, where he will comb his periwig in public, and puff away the clouds of powder that come from it.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton