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English
Etymology
French
Noun
perruquier (plural perruquiers)
- A maker of perukes or wigs.
- Synonym: wigmaker
1895, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 3, in George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris, Dodd, Mead and Company, paragraph 3:“the sun, like a courtly perruquier of the reign of George II., was lifting, and shifting, and setting in order the vapoury curls of the mountains.”
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French
Etymology
From perruque + -ier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛ.ʁy.kje/ ~ /pe.ʁy.kje/
Noun
perruquier m (plural perruquiers, feminine perruquière)
- wigmaker
- (obsolete) hairdresser
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