单词 | perukier |
释义 | perukiern. Now historical. A person who makes or sells perukes; a wig maker. ΘΚΠ 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 1813 European Mag. Aug. 112 A new Vocabulary of Fashionable Phrases... A Barber. Peruqueur. 1817 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 37 40 He was seized with the yellow fever, and died... The perukier shared the same fate. 1825 J. Banim & M. Banim Tales by O'Hara Family 1st Ser. I. 314 The felt-hat vender, who, leaving Sterne's perukier not a word, assures..that the hard and bare surface of the felt ‘blows like any meadow’! 1892 W. B. Scott Autobiogr. Notes I. 44 On one side was a perukier with an imposing assembly of law-wigs. 1961 I. Hume Here lies Virginia iv. 91 There was little left over for spending at the miliner's, perukier's, goldsmith's, or cabinetmaker's shops of Williamsburg. 1985 K. Williams Just Williams iii. 45 I was sent to the perukier and fitted with a mass of golden curls. Derivatives peˈrukiership n. the art of wig-making.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > the art of making perukiership1821 1821 London Lit. Gaz. 11 Aug. 509/3 It certainly was a skilful piece of perukiership. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813 |
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