Obs. [from surname of a fashionable perruquier late in 17th c.] A peruke or wig of a particular fashion.
1678. Otway, Friendship in F., 57. What a Bush of Bryars and Thorns is here? The Main of my Lady Squeamish’s Shock is a Chedreux to it.
1682. Oldham, Juvenal’s 3rd Sat. (1854), 191. Their Chedreux perruques, and those vanities.
[1689. Shadwell, Bury Fair, I. ii. (Frenchman says) If dat foole Chedreux make de peruque like me, I vil be hangd.]
1745. W. G. (aged 87), Lett., in Gent. Mag., 99/1. I remember plain John Dryden … in one uniform cloathing of Norwich drugget. I have eat tarts with him and Madam Reeve at the Mulberry-Garden, when our author advanced to a sword, and chadreux wig.
