“She wore a peruke like all the Wigs, and an infinite number of skirts made of butter muslin.”

“There again was castanet, a partisan leader in a voluminous peruke and with a taste for controversial divinity.”

“There are several in the show, from Cleopatra-style cascades of braided fiber to a tidy mud-pellet peruke.”

“Long-suffering servants were ordered about in French and wore perukes to wait on his guests.”

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

“You used to have the beau monde throng after you, and a flock of gay fine perukes hovering round you.”