Crossword-Solution: PERIWIG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periwig | n. | A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig. |
| Periwig | v. t. | To dress with a periwig, or with false hair. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PERIWIG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fake hair of bygone times | 1 answer |
| Washington's hairpiece | 1 answer |
| Top of the British judicial system? | 1 answer |
| Thing for an English barrister | 1 answer |
| Old-style hairpiece | 1 answer |
| Old-fashioned topper | 1 answer |
| Old hairpiece | 1 answer |
| Male fashion of Washington's time | 1 answer |
| It's worn by British barristers. | 1 answer |
| Hairpiece for Sir Roger | 1 answer |
| Dandy's topper | 1 answer |
| Covering of hair for head. | 1 answer |
| Colonial-era hairpiece | 1 answer |
| Colonial hairpiece | 1 answer |
| Colonial era hairpiece | 1 answer |
| 18th-centruy hairpiece | 1 answer |
| 18th-century hairpiece | 2 answers |
| Peruke | 2 answers |
| Washington wore one | 2 answers |
| periwinkle | 7 answers |
| BYGONE NAME IN HAIR REMOV | 10 answers |
| wig | 11 answers |
| Headdress | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PERIWIG (5)
Traquair was a good shot and swordsman: and it was his pleasure to walk with his son over the braes of the moorfowl, or to teach him arms in the back court, when they made a mighty comely pair, the child being so lean, and light, and active, and the laird himself a man of a manly, pretty stature, his hair (the periwig being laid aside) showing already white with many anxieties, and his face of an even, flaccid red.
THE SEEKING OF THE NAME AND now there was speech in the south, And a man of the south that was wise, A periwig’d lord of London, {109} Called on the clans to rise.
Thus he walked in dignity, guards of soldiers sometimes attending him in his walks, subalterns bowing before his periwig; and when he uttered his thoughts they were suitable to his state and services.
The brave Ancient suddenly started, as one possessed with surprise and disappointment together; for the helmet was nine times too large for the head, which appeared situate far in the hinder part, even like the lady in a lobster, or like a mouse under a canopy of state, or like a shrivelled beau from within the penthouse of a modern periwig; and the voice was suited to the visage, sounding weak and remote.
The whole piece is marked allegro; but surely could easily be played too fast? The dignity must not be lost; the periwig feeling.
Quotes with PERIWIG (1)
Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1945–2017).