peruke

noun

1. A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.

   “To poſterity perhaps his prints vvill carry an idea of ſomething burleſque; perukes of outrageous length flovving over ſuits of armour compoſe vvonderfull habits.”

   “But now at thirty years my hair is gray— / (I wonder what it will be like at forty? / I thought of a peruke the other day) […]”

   “Let the long peruke succeed the godly cropt hair; the cravat, the ruff; […]”

   “Every chair was filled, the line of assistants working like conjurors at the bizarre hairstyles, a splendid confusion of feathers and flared perukes, wings of back-brushed hair, like the plumage of an aviary.”

   “With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.”