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单词 brutus
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Brutusn.

Brit. /ˈbruːtəs/, U.S. /ˈbrudəs/
Etymology: < the name of Lucius Junius Brutus, legendary founder of the Roman Republic. ‘The rough-cropped head then fashionable was called a Brutus by the French, after the great hero of antiquity whom they specially reverenced’. Fairholt (ed. Dillon) I. 408.
More fully Brutus Wig: a kind of wig.
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1798 H. L. Piozzi Let. 27 Mar. (1914) 152 I wonder if the pretty Misses go in self coloured drawers..and Brutus Heads with you as they do here.
1804 W. Irving Jrnls. & Notebks. (1969) I. 464 She caught hold of his hat & it came off with his brutus wig in it.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxxi. 304 During one period of the French Revolution the Brutus head-dress was the mode.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance ii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 61 Old Mr Crewe, the curate, in a brown Brutus wig.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 60/1 He wore his hair with the curls arranged in a Brutus, à la George the Fourth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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