periwig
pronunciation
How to pronounce periwig in British English:
UK ['perɪwɪg]
How to pronounce periwig in American English:
US ['perəˌwɪg]
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- Noun:
- wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries
Word Origin
- periwig
- periwig: see wig
- periwig (n.)
- 1520s, perwyke, popular corruption of perruck, from Middle French perruque (see peruke).