periwig in a sentence
Examples
- Yet these are not the sort of historical fictions that serve up warmed-over " Masterpiece Theater " plots, larded with period costumes, periwigs and bared bosoms.
- And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire for fear of the infection?
- The wig depicted to the far right is a " remarkable winged periwig " worn by Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet when he became Lord Mayor of London earlier in 1761.
- At the bottom of the engraving is an inscription stating that a series of six folio volumes published over 17 years will set out the measurements of the periwigs of the ancients.
- William Hickey described the elderly Hudson, " His figure was rather grotesque, being uncommonly low in stature, with a prodigious belly, and constantly wearing a large white bushy periwig.
- Many know the iconic image, with bald pate draped in a periwig; bulging, impassive eyes hooded by bold, dark brows, and jowly chin suspended from a sternly set jaw.
- This is said by Tony ( Tony Torn ), a man in a white periwig, lace cuffs and a torn business suit who suggests a demonic Voltaire with Jimmy Durante's voice.
- Even Colonial Williamsburg fabrics, never an earthshaking mirror of the moment, were flaunting shimmering gold special effects, a notion that would certainly raise more than one Founding Father's powdered periwig.
- Jefferson is almost two and a half hours long, and you'll swear that 50 minutes of it is used to establish shots of ballrooms and salons; we see every plume and periwig.
- A second state of the engraving corrects a typographical error by inserting the letter " e " in " ", and relabels the " Episcopal " order of periwigs as " Episcopal and Parsonic ".