perruque
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See also: pèrruque
Noun
perruque (plural perruques)
- Alternative form of peruke
Etymology
Probably borrowed from western Lombard perrucca, parrucca. Compare the phonetic changes of intervocalic -L- into -R- of Italian parlare and Sicilian parrari.
Pronunciation
Noun
perruque f (plural perruques)
- wig
- (historical) wig, periwig, peruke
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: بَرُوكَة (barūka)
- → Catalan: perruca
- → Czech: paruka
- → Danish: paryk
- → German: Perücke
- → Greek: περούκα (peroúka)
- → English: periwig
- → English: peruke
- → English: wig
- → Esperanto: peruko
- → Spanish: peluca
- → Estonian: parukas
- → Finnish: peruukki
- → Galician: perruca
- → Ido: peruko
- → Italian: parrucca
- → Luxembourgish: Parréck
- → Lithuanian: perukas
- → Latvian: parūka
- → Macedonian: перика (perika)
- → Dutch: pruik
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk
- → Norwegian: parykk
- → Plautdietsch: Pruck
- → Polish: peruka
- → Portuguese: peruca
- → Romanian: perucă
- → Turkish: peruk
- → Russian: парик (parik)
Further reading
- “perruque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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