peruke

See also: perukę

English

James II of England wearing a peruke.

Alternative forms

• perruque
• peruque

Etymology

From French perruque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈɹuːk/

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. They were sometimes made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig. Earliest appearance in the English language is in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.213:

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

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

     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 2011, p. 135:

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

Translations

wig

• 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

Noun

peruke

1. (fishing) wire trace, snood

Declension

Inflection of peruke (Kotus type 48/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

Synonyms

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