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 […]
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Periwig
//ˈpɛɹɪwɪɡ//
Synonyms for "periwig" (4 found)
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7 total sentences available.
Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.
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[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 […]
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The floods in icie fetters bound. Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig Wears his snowie Periwig, And every bough his snowy beard.
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