periwig
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Is periwig a Scrabble word?
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- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of periwig?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (now historical) A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.Examples: "O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]"; "Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig."; "[T]he sun Grown stale, is to so low a value run, That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres In lovers' sonnets […]"historical
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.Examples: "Discord periwigg'd with snakes"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary