Ramillie

Major, who, apparently delighted at the prospect of witnessing such an encounter between the two most renowned swordsmen in Europe, drank off his stoup of wine, muffled himself in his rocquelaure, and with his little cocked hat stuck jauntily on one side of the Ramillie wig, left the apartment, and demanded his horse and the reckoning.

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"Fair sir, little introduction is necessary between us, as, I believe, we have both followed the drum in our time," said the Major, shaking the curls of his Ramillie wig with the air of a man who has decided on what he says.

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In 1706 the English, led by Marlborough, gained a great victory on the battlefield of Ramillies, and that gave the title to a long wig described as "having a long, gradually diminishing, plaited tail, called the 'Ramillie-tail,' which was tied with a great bow at the top, and a smaller one at the bottom."

At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878

Read's _Weekly Journal_ of May 1st, 1736, in a report of the marriage of the Prince of Wales, that "the officers of the Horse and Foot Guards wore Ramillie periwigs by His Majesty's order."

At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878

In the same Place I observed a young Fellow with a tolerable Periwig, had it not been covered with a Hat that was shaped in the Ramillie Cock.

Spectator, July 28, 1711 1711

a tolerable Periwig, had it not been covered with a Hat that was shaped in the _Ramillie_ Cock.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Ramillie wig, and looking remarkably grave; "you cannot mean to have a bout with Sir William?

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Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. "] and gentlemen wore swords, and some of the more reckless bloods were daringly beginning to discard the Ramillie-tie and the pigtail for their own hair; when politeness was obligatory, and morality a matter of taste, and when well-bred people went about the day's work with an ample leisure and very few scruples.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918