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  • n  a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries

  • In later ages, the elegant powdered peruke of the 18th century looked askance at Hals's clearly visible brush strokes.
  • To John Singleton Copley is attributed a likeness of Washington as an elegant young Colonial of 25, an 18th Century dandy in a tightly curled peruke and lace ruff.
  • A year later he was wearing a barrister's white peruke in London.

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