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  • s  wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries

  • Last week the periwigged British bar viewed with interest the unprecedented decision reached in the Manchester Assizes in the case of Smith v.
  • A huge, periwigged man, bent over his cane by the pain of his rheumatism, he roamed the streets of London, sputtering his brand of Germanic English.
  • By the evidence of merciless, meticulous William Hogarth and the caricaturists who followed him, 18th-Century London was mostly a hell of rich periwigged idiots and drunken slum.

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