"periwig" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1657, Josua Poole, The English Parnassus, vide \"Frost\"",
          "text": "The floods in icie fetters bound.\nCrusted earth. Every honey-headed twig\nWears his snowie Periwig,\nAnd every bough his snowy beard."
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          "text": "From her own Head, Megwra takes\nA Perriwig of twisted Snakes;\nWhich in the nicest Fashion curl'd,\nLike Toupets of this upper World […]",
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