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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERUKE , an artificial See also:

head of See also:hair, a See also:wig. The word is from Fr. perruque, an See also:adaptation of Ital. perruca or parrucca. This is usually taken to be from Ital. pelo, hair; See also:Lat. piles. Span. peluca, wig, and Sardinian pilucca, See also:lock or tuft of hair, support this view. In the 17th See also:century the See also:English forms which the See also:French word took, such as perruck or perug, were corrupted into perwyke, and thence into perewyk, perewig, and lastly " periwig," which again was shortened into " wig," the See also:common See also:term for all types of artificial heads of hair. Periwig is sometimes confined to the heavy full-bottomed wigs worn from the reign of See also:Charles II. to the introduction of the See also:light, tailed wig of the 18th century.

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