Definitions
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Conduit Street, Tailors; and Mr. Eglantine, the celebrated perruquier and perfumer of Bond Street, whose soaps, razors, and patent ventilating scalps are know throughout Europe.”
“At his first arrival he finds it necessary to send for the taylor, perruquier, hatter, shoemaker, and every other tradesman concerned in the equipment of the human body.”
“We have seen him sneering and leering as he made his way round a drawing-room at an evening party, and bowing like a French perruquier to some absurd fool of a foreigner; and we have seen him, a minute after, holding up his head and cocking his chin in defiance, if an English voice approached.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
“He had been to see the costumer, perruquier, leader of orchestra, etc., and enjoined each of them to be on hand early.”
“Most likely he would have adopted this course in the end, had his will and his self-regard been stronger; but neither, it seems, was proof against the blandishments of the match-making perruquier.”
“Mr. Rohscheimer mentioned later to Mr. Murray that in this man he had recognised, beyond any shadow of doubt, a perruquier whose name is”
“The perruquier in the town that dressed me this morning tells me that everybody is determined to pay no taxes; that the soldiers will never fire on the people; but if they should, it is better to be shot, than starved.”
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
“There was little light in the street, but the glow from the window of a Court perruquier was sufficient to reveal the features.”
“It was Sunday morning, and Tom was making his way, towards the hour of noon, to the house of the perruquier, which he had quitted some four days past, with no intention of so long an absence.”
“Valet and perruquier followed the retreating guests, and Lord Claud drew a breath of relief.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘perruquier’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Wig
Wiggery. Even though kalayzich got there first with the list called wigs.
paresseuse, nob-thatcher, rogerian, bob-jerom, gregorian, pigeonwing, pulvil, bagwig, vallancy, tye-wig, Bob, bob-wig and 33 more...
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wigs
wig terminology
transformation
4. An artificial head of hair worn by women.
1901 Daily News 12 Jan. 6/7 Buying toupées, or even ‘transformations’, as those wigs are ca...buzzwig, bagwig, bobwig, dalmahoy, gizz, jiz, jasey, jasy, jazy, periwig, perruque, peruke and 54 more...
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Typewriter words
Long English words that can be typed on a keyboard under various restictions. The longest are:
QWERTY left hand only: aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, tesseradecades, and tetrastearates...abracadabras, aftercataracts, aftereffects, barebreasted, decerebrated, desegregated, detractresses, extravagated, extravasated, reaggregated, resegregated, reverberated and 111 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for perruquier.
frogapplause A marker???
A marker of perukes or wigs. Oct 9, 2011
ruzuzu Yes! And the one from "Myths and Marvels of Astronomy."
Aug 5, 2011
yarb Especially the one from "Story-Lives of Great Musicians". Aug 5, 2011
ruzuzu I love the examples for this. Aug 5, 2011
mollusque A wig-maker. Apr 6, 2008