Definitions for periwig

periwig per·i·wig

Spelling: [per-i-wig]
IPA: /ˈpɛr ɪˌwɪg/

Periwig is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in periwig (egiiprw).

Definitions for periwig

noun

  1. a wig, especially a peruke.

Origin of periwig

1520-30; earlier perwyke, alteration of Middle French perruque peruke

Examples for periwig

The colour of his hair could not be discovered, as, according to the fashion, he wore a periwig.

His barber agrees to keep his periwig in order for £1 a year.

Come, come, it would be but a bald world, but that it weares a periwig.

Ti wears a periwig of a different kind from that of 204Ra-nefer.

The shaved Mohammedans of our day replace the periwig with the turban.

I wonder shall history ever pull off her periwig and cease to be Court-ridden?

We looked high and low, on the seats and beneath them, but not a sign of the periwig was there.

He looked him over from the soles of his riding-boots to the crown of his periwig.

Belay the binnacle and part the ship's periwig abaft the main-mast!

The periwig first appears in history as the headgear of a fool.

Word Value for periwig
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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