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Перевод: wig
[существительное] парик ; волосы
Тезаурус:
- I wore a short wig in the recent production of Noel Coward's Private Lives .
- The bigger the wig, the longer the retinue of courtiers.
- I want slowly to remove his wig; gently to untie his gown; slowly, so slowly - and terribly, terribly privately - to whisper in his lovely, lovely ear, while he struggles in vain: "De minimis non curat lex."
- He wore no hat or wig and his thick untidy hay-coloured hair was tied away from his face.
- Recent vault clearances of over 2,000 coffins of the period 1729-;1865 from St Marylebone Parish Church and Christchurch, Spitalfields, 18 exhibit a change in attitude; for here, whilst it was not unusual to find wedding rings and dentures in situ , there were two instances - both men - of day-clothes having been used in place of the shroud: one in military uniform, the other an octogenarian macaroni with his walking stick, sporting an outfit more suited to a man sixty years his junior, as did the coiffure of his wig.
- Every time he drove the big Volvo along those crowded motorways he knew that one random police check, one brush with another car, one moment of inattention would have a blue-capped officer leaning in his window, wondering why he wore a wig and a false moustache.
- Among the clubs frequented by the gentry of London in the eighteenth century was the Wig Club which owed its name to a wig, reputedly made of the pubic hair of the mistresses of King Charles II.
- Stephanie, a mere stripling of 50, thought at first she wasn't old enough for her part, but two hours of make-up, a wig and plenty of padding soon solved that problem.
- "You were a right come-on in that get-up," he said, patting my wig.
- They grew a new "ear" on her stomach with grafts taken from her thighs; the scab on the superficially burnt left side of her face lifted off almost in one piece, leaving behind the flawless pink skin of a teenager; but even after a year in hospital and scores of painful grafts, the right side of her face was hideously scarred, her hair and eyebrows never grew again and a plastic plate fitted over her carbonized skull prevented her from wearing a wig.
- Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle, but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe.
- As her hair had been squashed down by her David Shilling spotted hat, she put on her prettiest blond wig with the tendrils over the forehead.
- I get to put on my Sue Lawley wig, and Sugar get to tell me their Desert Island Discs.
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