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Quotation dates: 1669-1700+
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(Piriwik,) Piriwick, Piriwig, Pirwig, n. Also: -vige, -weeg, and pirriwig, pirie-, pirewig. [Sc. variants of Periwik n.] A wig. Also comb. with -making and in Piriwik-Maker.(1) 1669 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 107.
He … bate him to the ground and threw away his hate and pirivige 1678 Fugitive Poetry II. xxxv. 3/54.
They pull'd the Whigs piriweegs over their nose 1684 Law Memor. 174.
The pope's effigies of timber with a painted face … the head covered with a lyert pirewig 1691 Foulis Acc. Bk. 132.
For a glass of jesmie oyl for my piriwigs 1699 Misc. 3 Spald. C. II. 102.
Pirriwigs … [£9] the peice(b) 1675 Cunningham Diary 65.
That he payd in Janr 1671 for a piriwick to me, 17.0.4.(c) 1701 Brand Orkney & Shetl. 123.
A monster which had upon its forehead like a pirwig of flesh and hair(2) comb. 1698 Stirling B. Rec. II. 88.
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