peruke

1. 1.

   a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries

   Synonymsperiwig

   Broaderwig

Other forms of peruke

plural

perukes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about peruke

What does peruke mean?

peruke means "a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries".

How many syllables are in peruke?

peruke has 2 syllables: pe-ruke. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for peruke?

Close synonyms include periwig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peruke a common word?

peruke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.