peruke 的詞源

1540年代，“自然頭髮”（現已過時）的意思，來自法語 perruque（15世紀晚期），源自意大利語 perrucca “頭髮，假髮”，這是一個起源不明的詞； 有人認爲它與拉丁語 pilus “頭髮”有關，“但語音上的困難相當大”[OED]。意思是“假髮，人造頭髮”（尤其是有大量豐富的質量）自1560年代開始出現。比較 periwig。

About the middle of the sixteenth century wearing the peruke became a fashion. Immense perukes with curls falling upon the shoulders were worn from about 1660 to 1725, and were then succeeded by smaller and more convenient forms, which had also existed contemporaneously with the former. As late as 1825 some old-fashioned people still wore perukes, and a reminiscence of them remains in Great Britain in the wigs of the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons, judges, barristers, etc. [Century Dictionary]

大約在16世紀中葉，戴假髮成爲一種時尚。從1660年到1725年，人們戴着長卷發垂在肩上的巨大假髮，然後被更小更方便的形式所取代，這些形式也與前者同時存在。直到1825年，一些老式人物仍然戴着假髮，在英國，大法官、下議院議長、法官、律師等人的假髮中仍然保留着它們的回憶。[世紀詞典]