Definitions for perukes

perukes pe·ruke

Spelling: [puh-rook]
IPA: /pəˈruk/

Perukes 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 146 anagrams from letters in perukes (eekprsu).

Definitions for perukes

noun

  1. a man's wig of the 17th and 18th centuries, usually powdered and gathered at the back of the neck with a ribbon; periwig.

Origin of perukes

First recorded in 1540-50, peruke is from the Middle French word perruque head of hair, wig, of disputed orig.

Examples for perukes

Wigs, perukes, or periwigs, were revived in the seventeenth century.

The divine was a man who placed charity above rubrics, and discarded bigotry as he did perukes.

To be a gentleman was a matter of silk breeches and perukes and late hours?

Wig, said my master, he wants none; for his own venerable white locks are better than all the perukes in England.

Further, send me eight confidential discreet men of my height and size, with eight perukes, exactly the cut of mine.

Mrs. Archer went softly up to the maker of perukes, and whispered something in his ear.

One of these perukes would sometimes cost forty or fifty pounds.

He describes these Horonites of wit as “magnificent fops, whose talents reach but to the adjusting of their perukes.”

Artificial hair, for the manufacture of perukes, is dyed in the same manner as wool.

Cards and tables do offend him, and perukes do fall within the compass of his theme.

Word Value for perukes
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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