Vulgar words in Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) (Page 1)
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It would not seem very simple since it was made full and curled to the front, and had, so writes a contemporary, Randle Holme, in his Academy of Armory , 1684, "knots and bobs a-dildo on each side and a curled forehead."
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The portrait of Fitz-John Winthrop shows a prodigious imposing wig, but it has no "knots or bobs a-dildo on each side," though the forehead is curled; it is a fine example of a peruke.