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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearing a periwig or peruke.

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Examples

  • 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 groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.

    George Heymont: Laying a Clear Dramatic Foundation George Heymont 2011

  • 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 groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.

    progress... tiggerallyn 2006

  • Actors at that time were often robustious, periwig-pated fellows who sawed the air with their hands and tore a passion to tatters.

    The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

  • 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 groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.

    Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller

  • 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 groundlings, 10 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such

    The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

  • 'The Adoration of the Magi' (_Scene 17_) introduces us to a very notable person, no other than Herod, the model of each 'robustious periwig-pated fellow' who on the stage would 'tear a passion to tatters, to very rags', and so out-herod Herod.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • 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 groundlings; who, for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing

    The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan

  • 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 groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb - shows and noise.

    Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

  • Oh! it offends me to the soul, to see a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who (for the most part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • Oh, 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 groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise!

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

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