The seventh and last rhyme is a limerick about an " amiable guinea-pig " ( the first guinea pig in Potter's work ) who brushes his hair back like a periwig and dons a blue tie.
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The " "'Five Orders of Periwigs " "'( " The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically " ) is a 1761 engraving by William Hogarth.
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The judge, wearing a periwig and robes, took strong exception to Irving's contention that there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp and that the Nazis never used deadly gas to kill masses of Jews at the camp.
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The infamous " cloth cap " and " wool cap " remained somewhat constant among field workers for centuries, even as courtiers went from caps to turbans to tricorner hats to periwigs, etc . Utgard Loki 15 : 29, 25 May 2007 ( UTC)
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"Not only has he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and asserted that no Jew was gassed there, he has done so on frequent occasions and sometimes in the most offensive terms, " said the judge, wearing a periwig and robes.
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In 1666, Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, following the earlier example of Louis XIV of France, decreed that at court, men were to wear a long coat, a periwig or wig, and breeches gathered at the knee, as well as a hat for outdoor wear.
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His essay " Talitha Cumi ", first published in 1725, refers to the " right of women . " When the periwig became fashionable in New England, Sewall condemned the fashion vehemently, in contrast to Cotton Mather, who saw no reason why a Puritan should not wear a wig.
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Macaulay points to the allusions in the play to gentlemen's periwigs, to guineas, to the vests which Charles ordered to be worn at court, to the Great Fire of London, etc ., as showing that the comedy could not have been written the year before the author went to Oxford.
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In a June 1666 diary entry, Samuel Pepys describes the Maids of Honour in their riding habits of mannish coats, doublets, hats, and periwigs, " so that, only for a long petticoat dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women in any point whatever ".
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Beatrix Potter employed paduasoy to set the old-fashioned scene in " The Tailor of Gloucester ", which begins, " In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
