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peruke
A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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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) […]
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.