Definition of "peruked" []

• Wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "English capitals, their stiff flourishes, their quaint abbreviations, we should scarcely have been startled to see a peruked head bend above them and a hand with noisy quill go tracing along the lines of those long-ago "Whereases" and "Be it knowns.""
• "What judge, peruked by day, could so contain his learned locks?"
• "Later, when their peerage was conferred, they lost a little of their yeoman simplicity, and became peruked and robed and breeched; one, indeed, in the age of George III., who was blessed with poetical aspirations, appeared in bare feet and a"