periwig

noun

1. (historical)A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.

   “O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]”

   “Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.”

   “[T]he sun Grown stale, is to so low a value run, That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres In lovers' sonnets […]”

   “The floods in icie fetters bound. Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig Wears his snowie Periwig, And every bough his snowy beard.”

   “From her own Head, Megwra takes A Perriwig of twisted Snakes; Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd, Like Toupets of this upper World […]”

verb

1. (transitive)To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.

   “Discord periwigg'd with snakes”