Word: wigs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people...
...report of the Mask and Wig Club at the University of Pennsylvania gives the receipts of the season...
...Mask and Wig Club at the U. of P. is to present the play "Lurline" on Thursday...
...meeting of the Yale Union last Friday evening it was voted to accept the challenge received from Princeton for a joint debate between the two colleges. The executive committee of the Union was directed to make the necessary arrangement with the Wig and Cliosophic Society of Princeton in regard to the time and place for debate...
...Mask and Wig" of the University of Pennsylvania, has applied to the state for a charter...