perruquier

English

Etymology

French

Noun

perruquier (plural perruquiers)

1. 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.”

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perruquier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

From perruque +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.ʁy.kje/ ~ /pe.ʁy.kje/

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Noun

perruquier m (plural perruquiers, feminine perruquière)

1. wigmaker
2. (obsolete) hairdresser

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: перуке́р (perukér)

Further reading

• “perruquier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.