peruke

• perruque, peruque

From French perruque.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹuːk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹuk/
• Rhymes: -uːk
• Hyphenation: per‧uke

peruke (plural perukes)

1. A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
   • 1763, Horace Walpole, “Mr. JOHN SMITH”, in A Catalogue of Engravers, Who Have Been Born, or Resided in England; […], Strawberry-Hill [London]: […] Thomas Farmer […], OCLC 973434940, page 105:

     To poſterity perhaps his prints vvill carry an idea of ſomething burleſque; perukes of outrageous length flovving over ſuits of armour compoſe vvonderfull habits.

   • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 560103767, canto I, stanza CCXIII, page 109:

     But now at thirty years my hair is gray— / (I wonder what it will be like at forty? / I thought of a peruke the other day) […]

   • 1834, Robert Southey, “Ante-preface”, in The Doctor, &c., volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, OCLC 1179713, pages 35–36:

     Let the long peruke succeed the godly cropt hair; the cravat, the ruff; […]

   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, chapter 19, in The Unlimited Dream Company:

     Every chair was filled, the line of assistants working like conjurors at the bizarre hairstyles, a splendid confusion of feathers and flared perukes, wings of back-brushed hair, like the plumage of an aviary.

   • 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 135:

     With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.

peru +‎ -ke

• IPA^(key): /ˈperukeˣ/, [ˈpe̞ruke̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eruke
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧ru‧ke

peruke

1. (fishing) wire trace, snood

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