Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 430
g a littledown his Gregorian, which wasdisplact a little by his hastietaking off his beaver. Thiswigwas named from the inventor,one Gregory, the famousperuke-maker who is buryed atSt. Clements Danes Church.In Cotgraves Dictionary pe-rukes are called Gregorians. In the prologue to HautTon, written… … There was also the Ministers bob, Curleyroys, Airy levants, and I — perukes. The Dalmahoy was a bushy bob-wig. When Colonel John Carter died, he left to hisbrother Robert his cane, sword, and periwig. Ibelieve this to be the very Valiancy periwig which,in all its snowy whiteness and air of extreme…
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