Son of The Household Cavalry
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Son of The Household Cavalry says:
Catherine II of Russia kept her perruquier for more than three years in an iron cage in her bed-chamber, to prevent his telling people that she wore a wig. -Mons. De Masson: Memoires Secrets sur la Russie.
Perruquier was the posh word for wig maker.
A variation of the French perruque, Latin pilucca, our periwig cut short. In the middle of the eighteenth century we meet with thirty or forty different names for wigs: as the artichoke, bag, barrister's, bishop's, brush, bush (buzz, buckle, busby, chain, chancellor's, corded wolf's paw, Count Saxe's mode, the crutch, the cut bob, the detached buckle, the Dalmahoy (a bob-wig worn by tradesmen), the drop, the Dutch, the full, the half-natural, the Jansenist bob, the judge's, the ladder, the long bob, the Louis, the periwig, the pigeon's wing, the rhinoceros, the rose, the scratch, the she-dragon, the small back, the spinach seed, the staircase, the Welsh, and the wild boar's back.
 www.bartleby.com/81/17481.html and Brewers Phrase and Fable
Thu Mar 14 16:21:40 CST 2002
(To fix characters - McG)
Jun 01 03, 9:02 PM
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