- of dress,
affected by the
French Revolution, in the 1790s.
Perukes or
periwigs for men were
introduced into the English-speaking
world with
other French...
-
Operation Periwig was a
secret service operation planned and
carried out by the
British Special Operations Executive (SOE) from
November 1944 onwards...
- 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...
-
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...
-
dandies and was ****ociated with
foppish Italian fashions of
dress and
periwigs, as in the eighteenth-century
British song "Yankee Doodle". As is the case...
- worn by
Irish nationalists who were
opposed to the
wearing of
powdered periwigs closely ****ociated with
members of the
Protestant Ascendancy. They were...
-
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...
- in The
Tailor of Gloucester,
which begins, "In the time of
swords and
periwigs and full-skirted
coats with
flowered lappets—when
gentlemen wore ruffles...
-
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....
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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...
