The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perruque \Per`ruque"\, n. [F.] See Peruke.
Usage examples of "perruque".
Jean-Jacques Rousseau et, sinon la perruque, du moins la poudre dans ses cheveux.
There was my lord Clancarty, a Cyclops with one eye and a shocking perruque, who seemed to me not wholly in possession of his wits.
For a moment she glimpsed the top of a silvery perruque, the sheen of a mulberry brocade coat, and then he straightened and her brows lifted, for she faced the handsomest old man she had ever seen.
His features were straight and sharply chiselled, and what she had thought a silver perruque was in fact his own thick, un powdered hair, worn long and clubbed at the back of his neck.
Now the round cheeks were white, and the neat grey perruque sat comically askew.
Puffing on a pipe, his tricorn hat planted carelessly over a perruque that had seen better days, he watched intently the slow progress of timber barges as they sailed down the canal in the direction of Dordrecht.
La Perruque, Priest of Gallardon, had a hundred times repeated from the pulpit on Sunday.
La Perruque he deemed the matter sufficiently important to bring before the higher authorities.