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Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count R�diger von Starhemberg, who had under him a man destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene of Savoy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens.

From Time Magazine Archive

What judge, peruked by day, could so contain his learned locks?

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

This insulted Orson is swinging a tremendous club upon the little peruked ribboned high gentleman, promenading loftily in his preserves yonder!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Carlyle, Thomas