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animal hair, or a
synthetic imitation thereof. The word is
short for "
periwig". Wigs may be worn to
disguise baldness, to
alter the wearer's appearance...
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Operation Periwig was a
secret service operation planned and
carried out by the
British Special Operations Executive (SOE) from
November 1944 onwards...
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Periwig Maker is a 1999 British-German
short stop
motion animation film. 15
minutes long, it is
based on
Daniel Defoe's
novel A
Journal of the Plague...
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Excipe John
Periwig tied up to the tail of a dead pig. The
meaning here is "The
storm rose up and
overturned the boat" and "Except for John
Periwig", etc....
- The Five
Orders of
Periwigs (The Five
Orders of
Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late
Coronation Measured Architectonically) is a 1761
engraving by William...
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killed themselves and
their children. In
March 1945, as part of
Operation Periwig, the
British printed a German-language
black propaganda postcard, supposedly...
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usually paired with a soft, turban-like cap worn in
place of the
formal periwig. An
alternative style of
banyan was cut like a coat, ****ed, with set-in...
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waist for both men and women. This
period also
marked the rise of the
periwig as an
essential item of men's fashion. The wide, high-waisted look of the...
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looked less
attractive (which
earned this
epoch the
disdainful epithet "
periwig era" in the
Dutch Orangist historiography of the 19th century), it still...
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masquerades don the
disguise of a street-singer one day, the
hallelujah periwig of
Handel the next, the
dress of a
Jewish Czardas-fiddler
another time...
