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单词 peruke-maker
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peruke-makern.

Brit. /pəˈruːkˌmeɪkə/, U.S. /pəˈrukˌmeɪkər/
Forms: see peruke n. and maker n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: peruke n., maker n.
Etymology: < peruke n. + maker n.
Now historical.
A person who makes perukes; a wig maker.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > one who makes
peruke-maker1685
perruquier1753
perukier1892
1685 S. Wesley Maggots 156 Step back a little! call the Thatcher, No Peruke-maker e're could match her.
a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 274 Gregorie, famous peruq-maker, buryed at St. Clement Danes church.
1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. Feb. 4/2 All Persons indebted to Samuel Martyn, Peruke Maker, in Charleston, are desired to pay the same to Mr. Stephen Proctor, forthwith.
1763 T. Wharton Let. 22 Dec. (1995) I. 166 Please to direct to me at Mr Hill's Peruke Maker in Tavistock Street Covent-Garden.
1817 W. Gardner tr. ‘L. Bombet’ Lives Haydn & Mozart 225 Chance threw in his way a peruke-maker.
1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxii. 603 The fact of his not being a painter, or a peruke-maker.
1905 T. Auden Shrewsbury viii. 201 Brought up at Manchester as a barber and peruke-maker, he adopted the Jacobite principles.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 111/2 The distressed peruke-makers marched through the streets.
1993 Dict. National Biogr. at Wasbrough, Matthew He was..the son of Mary and William Wasbrough, originally a barber-surgeon and peruke maker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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