periwig
/ˈpɛɹɪwɪɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "[O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face."