peluca

/peˈluka/ · B2 · noun · f

wig

peluca — wig

pelo means hair, so peluca is hair you put on

Spanish pelo means hair, and peluca sounds like it grew from it. English wig is short for periwig, from French perruque, which belongs to the same family of words as peluca. That makes wig and peluca distant cousins.

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