peruke

See also: perukę

English

James II of England wearing a peruke.

Alternative forms

• perruque
• peruque

Etymology

From French perruque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹuːk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈɹuk/
• Rhymes: -uːk
• Hyphenation: per‧uke

Noun

peruke (plural perukes)

1. A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
   • 1763, Horace Walpole, “Mr. JOHN SMITH”, in A Catalogue of Engravers, Who Have Been Born, or Resided in England; […], Strawberry-Hill [London]: […] Thomas Farmer […], OCLC 973434940, page 105:

     To poſterity perhaps his prints vvill carry an idea of ſomething burleſque; perukes of outrageous length flovving over ſuits of armour compoſe vvonderfull habits.

   • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 560103767, canto I, stanza CCXIII, page 109:

     But now at thirty years my hair is gray— / (I wonder what it will be like at forty? / I thought of a peruke the other day) […]

   • 1834, Robert Southey, “Ante-preface”, in The Doctor, &c., volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, OCLC 1179713, pages 35–36:

     Let the long peruke succeed the godly cropt hair; the cravat, the ruff; […]

   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, chapter 19, in The Unlimited Dream Company:

     Every chair was filled, the line of assistants working like conjurors at the bizarre hairstyles, a splendid confusion of feathers and flared perukes, wings of back-brushed hair, like the plumage of an aviary.

   • 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 135:

     With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.

Translations

wig

• Bulgarian: дълга перука f (dǎlga peruka)
• Dutch: pruik (nl)
• Esperanto: peruko
• Finnish: peruukki (fi)
• French: perruque (fr) f
• German: Perücke (de) f
• Hebrew: פאה‎ (he) f
• Hungarian: paróka (hu)
• Ido: peruko (io)
• Interlingua: perrucca
• Italian: parrucca (it)

• Occitan: perruca
• Polish: peruka (pl)
• Portuguese: peruca (pt) f
• Russian: пари́к (ru) m (parík)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перика f, власуља f

  Roman: perika (sh) f, vlasulja (sh) f

• Spanish: peluca (es)
• Swedish: peruk (sv) c
• Volapük: peluk

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Finnish

Etymology

peru +‎ -ke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈperukeˣ/, [ˈpe̞ruke̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eruke
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧ru‧ke

Noun

peruke

1. (fishing) wire trace, snood

Declension

Inflection of peruke (Kotus type 48*A/hame, kk-k gradation)
nominative		peruke	perukkeet
genitive		perukkeen	perukkeiden perukkeitten
partitive		peruketta	perukkeita
illative		perukkeeseen	perukkeisiin perukkeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		peruke	perukkeet
accusative	nom.	peruke	perukkeet
	gen.	perukkeen
genitive		perukkeen	perukkeiden perukkeitten
partitive		peruketta	perukkeita
inessive		perukkeessa	perukkeissa
elative		perukkeesta	perukkeista
illative		perukkeeseen	perukkeisiin perukkeihin
adessive		perukkeella	perukkeilla
ablative		perukkeelta	perukkeilta
allative		perukkeelle	perukkeille
essive		perukkeena	perukkeina
translative		perukkeeksi	perukkeiksi
instructive		—	perukkein
abessive		perukkeetta	perukkeitta
comitative		—	perukkeineen

Possessive forms of peruke (type hame)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	perukkeeni	perukkeemme
2nd person	perukkeesi	perukkeenne
3rd person	perukkeensa

Synonyms

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